My 101-Year-Old Grandmother Hadn’t Left Bed in Two Years—Then She Came to My Daughter’s Birthday With a Locked Red Suitcase and Said, “Take Off Her Left Sock”
Grandma in her wheelchair behind her.
Mark laughing.
Me leaning toward the high chair.
Julian happens to be barely visible at the far edge.
I considered cropping him out.
Then didn’t.
He was there.
History does not become cleaner because we edit inconvenient people from photographs.