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“Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future.” -Gail Lumet Buckley

My beautiful mother, Patricia, in 1968. She was just 24, and was photographed by her new beaux, my father, on his flashy Triumph Spitfire in Dublin, Ireland.

I love the sparkle in her eyes; she was so happy and in love.

Later, she mothered three girls, all of whom she was very proud.

Sadly, she passed away suddenly when I was just 30 years old. She was just 63. I thought I was all grown up until I lost her.

Sometimes I catch a fleeting glance of her in the mirror and realize she’s still with me. ~shared by @lostandfoundimages

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Their adventures are your adventures. Their images inspire your imagination.

Here are my grandparents, Joe and Marge Nowaki, at a carnival in 1949, just before they were married.

They had 5 children – 4 girls and 1 boy. Over their lifetimes, they had 13 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren.

I remember how much they loved to travel and dance. They were great dancers; Gran loved Elvis especially.

She used to hide candy for us grandchildren to find. And she was an avid traveler her entire life, right up until the end. Even when she had dementia, she thought she was on vacation!

Gran just passed away this month and will be greatly missed. She was the Queen of our family. ~shared by @jesstea1

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These static images have the uncanny ability to jar the memory and bring places and people back to life. They bridge the present with the past. ~Isabel Lopez

This is my beautiful grandmother on Easter Day, 1961. She was only 43 years old when this photo was taken. She didn’t try to hide the gray in her hair; she was a classic beauty.
My grandfather sold Buicks so they always had a new one, just like this.
My memory of my grandmother is that she was an artistic person, very much a creative spirit. In fact, I still have a lot of her paintings hanging in my own house today. ~shared by @threecees704

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We all have tales to tell. The old photos help us remember where to begin.

Here’s my grandmother, Doris Kerscher Mueller, at age 4, with her parents, uncle and aunt in Munich in 1938.

Her parents, Isidor and Dora Kerscher (next to Doris), were originally from small towns in Bavaria, Germany.

They immigrated to the US when they were only 18 years old, and settled in Milwaukee, eventually purchasing a tavern, hall and bowling alley in New Holstein, WI, during Prohibition.

Yesterday was my grandmother Doris’ 80th birthday. Check out that fierce hood!

Happy birthday grandma. Cheers to memories…and the weekend! ~shared by @kellicohen

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Photos are pieces of our past that remind us what matters most in the present.

This is my grandmother, Martha. I love this photo of her, happy and carefree. Growing up, I learned lots of her loves. Those included roller skating and gin rummy.
She would always give my brother and me circus peanuts candy and hotdogs when we visited her.

And of course, she taught me gin rummy!

For the last 5 years of her life, she was in a nursing home and I was in my late teens and early twenties. I was very “busy” with all I thought was important and didn’t visit her as much as I should have.

Once she passed away, I was struck by how “busy” I made myself that often I missed the magnitude of blessings in front of me.
I didn’t take time to listen to her stories enough, or learn more about her life. I wish I had her here with me now, but I do have this photo. It helps hold that lesson out to me, and inspires me to think of my grandmother as I make it a goal to learn more about the loved ones in my life currently. ~shared by @atticseventeen

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