Still trying to recapture the past
posted by sooyup
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Courting days,
Daily trivia,
Pictures of Emm
When I was eighteen, my sweet little Emma let herself be persuaded to strip down to her panties for me. For a brief moment or two, she stood there in her navy-blue, regulation, schoolgirl knickers, biting her lip nervously as if she were undergoing a medical inspection in front of the school nurse. I still carry the picture with me - but only in my mind, of course. Oh, if only the cell-phone with digital camera had been invented! I tried several years later, when Emma was still in the bloom of youth, to take photographs which at least resembled the image In my head. But the innocence had gone. I still try now and then to recreate that image - or something approximating to it - but never succeed. The problem is that I have so few photographs of Emma Jane in her early teens to use in a collage. Bear in mind what a hassle it was in prehistoric times to take photographs. Except on special occasions, few family’s bothered to take pictures of their teenage children.
When I was eighteen, my sweet little Emma let herself be persuaded to strip down to her panties for me. For a brief moment or two, she stood there in her navy-blue, regulation, schoolgirl knickers, biting her lip nervously as if she were undergoing a medical inspection in front of the school nurse. I still carry the picture with me - but only in my mind, of course. Oh, if only the cell-phone with digital camera had been invented! I tried several years later, when Emma was still in the bloom of youth, to take photographs which at least resembled the image In my head. But the innocence had gone. I still try now and then to recreate that image - or something approximating to it - but never succeed. The problem is that I have so few photographs of Emma Jane in her early teens to use in a collage. Bear in mind what a hassle it was in prehistoric times to take photographs. Except on special occasions, few family’s bothered to take pictures of their teenage children.
