EVEN SO a picture of least importance barn and house or set of stick figures the animals by the barn clearly not interested in the photographer two of the figures holding stick hands and smiling we understand not where the place is who are the people what history occasioned the need to depict but the impulse to have an image treasured for awhile or longer from time to time held in hand gazing and remembering and now in our hands held without a memory to go with it but gazing even so
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