posted by sooyup
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Courting days,
Looking back,
Pictures of Emm
I have only half a dozen photographs of Emma Jane dating from when we first met. I was lucky that even these survived in her mother’s effects. Emma would have destroyed them all. All but one of them are the compulsory school photographs, which in those days always turned out like mug-shots for the Criminal Records Office. [From the photographs I have seen of nephews and nieces, it seems that standards have improved beyond measure.] Like many a fourteen-year-old girl, Emma Jane was pathologically camera-shy. And although I loved her from day one, I have to admit from the scant evidence I have that she was not as photogenic as she would later become. It makes me realise how lucky I was that we met when we did. A year or so later and she might well have gone for someone who showed more promise.
I have only half a dozen photographs of Emma Jane dating from when we first met. I was lucky that even these survived in her mother’s effects. Emma would have destroyed them all. All but one of them are the compulsory school photographs, which in those days always turned out like mug-shots for the Criminal Records Office. [From the photographs I have seen of nephews and nieces, it seems that standards have improved beyond measure.] Like many a fourteen-year-old girl, Emma Jane was pathologically camera-shy. And although I loved her from day one, I have to admit from the scant evidence I have that she was not as photogenic as she would later become. It makes me realise how lucky I was that we met when we did. A year or so later and she might well have gone for someone who showed more promise. 
