the moment before the picture held the truth. the beatles' most famous picture in the crosswalk. who saw them a few seconds earlier? who witnessed them adjusting their jackets, moving stray hair from their eyes?
grade schoolers lined up for picture day, the boys roughhousing and throwing paper wads, the shy girl in the back, holding her head down quietly, then grinning widely to show 2 missing teeth.
these are the moments he longed for. they were the moments he wondered about.
he saw these pictures, he kept them in an album, full of pictures of people he never knew. he hoped that maybe someone would find a picture of him and wonder. he hoped they would imagine stories of his life. that somewhere, in the mind of a young visionary, he would be alive and vibrant; his life would be extraordinary.
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