Family Portrait

We spent one Thanksgiving down in Florida, on the west coast near the Suncoast Seabird Sactuary. Most evenings we crossed the street to walk down the beach at sunset.

One of these evenings a pair of strangers came up with a Polaroid in hand. Could they take our picture, the one said, and instantly I was thinking oh shit....

But then the man explained a bit more: his mother recently had a stroke. She couldn't speak any more, couldn't really communicate at all, but she could still work her camera, and what she most wanted to do with the rest of her life was go to the beach & give away photos of the people she met there. Would we allow her to take our picture ...?

We did:
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