My Parents

Sometimes it is very hard to think of your parents as ever being young. But here they are, age 17! With them is my grandfather and Uncle James. I think my grandmother is not in the picture because she is pregnant with my youngest uncle. There is a superstition that being photographed might cause a miscarriage. My parents' marriage was arranged through a matchmaker. There was a research of both families to see if there was any bad genes, etc. My mother was carried to my father's village in a wooden sedan. She wore the traditional red wedding gown with a headdress. She said it was very heavy and she got a headache from it. Too bad that there was no little Kodaks back then.