Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Family Resemblance

My brother recently inherited a box of old family photographs from my gramps, who is moving to Nova Scotia at the end of the month. It has now become my brother's duty to scan the box-o-pics so that everyone can have copies. He and I were both goofing off at work the other day, and he was emailing me a few of the pics that he has scanned. They were, of course, adorable, so I promptly put this one up as my desktop wallpaper:

Not five minutes later a co-worker walks past and says "oh cute, you got a retro picture taken of yourself" and I'm like "... those are my grandparents." Co-worker says "... dude, you look like your grandma!!!" I told my brother this and he said "I thought that too when I saw this picture." Everyone who sees this picture since then has said "WOW you look like your grandma!" I guess I can kind of see it, although I suspect the resemblance is strictly in the silly expression on her face (they were going on their honeymoon, so they were probably giddy!) I've only ever heard once before that I resemble my grandma, so it's weird that it's all coming up from this one picture. I'm tempted to go put my hair in curlers and look in the mirror! Honestly, my grandma was a darling, and I inherited her love of dancing and (apparently!) her silliness, so why not her looks as well? Genes are funny things.

Here's another pic of my grandma. What do you think? I definitely can't see it in this picture (she is WAY cuter than me!!!)

For comparison, here's a picture of me being silly. I really think that's the key, people. It's the silliness.


Thoughts?

Love,

Gillian

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