A Writer's Biography, Volume I, Part 11: Saved Photos

“Do you want some of our old pictures?” my dad said one day.

When you’re a child, you get a lot of things from your parents. They come pretty regularly, such as clothes and food, that you don’t even notice when it happens. Then there’s times when you get a lot of things from your parents during your birthday and Christmas every year.

A lot of kids have the impression that they don’t get a lot of things from their parents when they are older, especially after they turn eighteen. That turns out to not exactly to be the case. You do tend to get things, but the types of things that you end up getting tend to be different than what you got when you were younger. Sometimes those things are valuable and are things you would love to have, while some have more (or less) sentimental value and not necessarily things you would love to have.

What all those things would have in common is that the parents typically can’t keep them anymore. Either your parents or other relatives are moving into a smalle…