They Are There

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That family of mine…

Ended the visit with one more photo shoot…got together…started to smile…Little Sis posing the old folks and the conversation took a turn..

OMG…she said…you all have the same shaped head…I bet that’s what mine looks like too…to which that uncle of hers replied…did you just say we all have big heads…

And we do…kind of…big head…square head…notice it more and more with age…see that grandma of mine often in the mirror…

The nose…the side profile…the lips…same with that pizza making brother of mine and his Bohemie relatives…the resemblance is uncanny…

Something about it takes the edge off of aging tho…that youthful beauty no longer there…but instead…over time…replaced with memories…a legacy…those features of the ones you loved…

And so it is…those people…your people…who meant so much to you…they never really leave…a cardinal…a favorite song…they are there…

In your heart…in your mind…and sometimes…in that reflection…smiling back at you…in the mirror…
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And that daughter of mine…agrees…