Birthdays

On Nov.27 I celebrated my fourth birthday in Miami, where I was born, sharing the cake with my doll, a favorite companion. My mother was born on Nov. 26. The years of our birth those dates fell on Thanksgiving day. Photographs are a legacy of many happy times



submitted by Marianne Alvarez during the exhibition
"Telling Our Own Stories: Florida's Family Photographs"
at The Southeast Museum of Photography
in Daytona Beach, Florida, June to September 1997



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