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Photo Sketch

"30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS"  | May 11

Prompt ▼

Look at a picture from your younger years. You don’t have to share the photo with us, but try to describe it in as much detail as possible. What led up to the photo being taken and what happened after?

Next to the door of our home there's a framed sketch, which is actually taken from a photo that was taken when my wife and I were first dating. It's of us sitting at a table in a bookstore cafe. We're holding hands and looking over our shoulders toward the camera and smiling. A friend took the photo while we were all hanging out one day.

My sister-in-law, for a gift one year, took the photo and did a realistic pencil sketch and had it framed. It's a nice reminder every time we walk by the front door of that moment frozen in time. After the photo was taken, we continued to date for several years, got married, and have been happily married for over a decade.