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Pictures like this one scared me... they still do. I don't know what it is. The clothes, the stern looks on the older persons, the black and white tone, or maybe it's because every person depicted on a picture like this always, and I mean it, ALWAYS looks evil...Looking at this picture, I can't help but notice how weak and feeble the father looks. He must've been a hard man on his day... the wife probably took a beating or two.
The older son, which I think is the one on the right, would obviously inherit the "family business", and judging by the clothes, he must've worked on sales.
The mother, a loving woman who'd never leave her husband no matter how hard life was with him, was raised just for that. Grow up, get married to a "nice" man, have children, raise them, and stay at home to serve hand on foot to her husband. Uneducated, just like her mother, the daughter was on the same path.
The younger son would soon be drafted for war. He'd die 6 months later by an infected gunshot wound.
I can't even imagine how hard life must've been in that time, for this entire family. But in spite of all their trouble, the hard father very set on his ways, the abnegated mother, and the obedient children, war, disease, everything they worked for washed away by these troubles... they stayed together up until the end.
After all, everything you have left when the chips are down, is your family... nothing else.
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