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A photograph doesn’t really

capture the moment

or present a perfect memory.

The photos of happy families

sold in frames and black and white

(where the parents are impossibly young

and the children impossibly gap-toothed

and the teenagers impossibly blonde),

are full of smiles that are just

a little too bright.

And the photos of happy families

that sit on mantelpieces

(that show early Christmas mornings and first bikes

and entangled arms)

are always in the past

and you’d never know that the parents

got a divorce three years later.