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My Parents' Marriage in 67K

My Parents' Marriage in 67K

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John Mendelssohn
Sep 19, 2010
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My Parents' Marriage in 67K
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Here is the one of the saddest sequence of photographs in the world, the story of my parents’ marriage in 67 kilobytes.

In the first image, with my paternal grandmother Rose on the left, and my mother’s mother, Celia Kaufman, on the right, we see my dad, as ever, reveling in the attention of others, hamming it up for the wedding photographer. What’s rema…

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