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[LuckyCharms]

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[c-rational]

1. You are a lucky man LuckyCharms, and your Mom is quite the looker. I am trying to picture her

years later on your porch, walking a mile from the diner with food and having a half a glass of wine with you and friends. Good memories. Great photo.

[c-rational]

12. Another great photo. Thanks for sharing.

[True Dough]

16. You got

great brows!

[LuckyCharms]

17. So do you, handsome.

[erronis]

2. One lucky young man tucked down at the bottom of the photo.

What was the occasion? I'd make a guess as to the heritage (Italian?) but I'd probably be wrong.

[LuckyCharms]

7. Mom's birthday. The entire population of Italy is in that pic.

[Niagara]

3. I see many happy faces

I also see a few waist hugs and balloons!

[Niagara]

4. My brain is on the out, I'm not checking your head count,Lucky

[LuckyCharms]

8. I lost count, Niagara. I think it's between 60 and 70 people.

[Niagara]

9. You're doing better than I am, Lucky

I can't count that high.

[LuckyCharms]

10. Do what I do then...

Use your toes when you run out of fingers!

[Niagara]

11. lol

I have crayons that I count on too!

Speaking of counting high... I just took my first gummy.

[LuckyCharms]

13. I eat crayons!

The blue ones taste like blueberries!

Don't take another gummy, whatever you do! I've made that mistake a few times!

[Niagara]

14. I eat.... Nevermind I really don't eat anything

I took half and I'm waiting for sleep hopefully.


That's why i got them anyways lol

[LuckyCharms]

15. The shepherd and his sheep, will wind you to sleep.

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[Niagara]

18. Thank you

[debm55]

6. What a beautiful family. Thank you for sharing LuckyCharms.

[Figarosmom]

19. Pretty girl.

Why are they all women?

[LuckyCharms]

20. I'm not sure!

[jfz9580m]

21. Cute pic

I have not seen those hair pins in forever. They all have the short hair of that era. Was this around WW2? Going by what I infer your age to be LuckyCharms that would track..


Your mom is very pretty. My mom was born in just post independence India. And she used to like black and white movies from that period.

[LuckyCharms]

22. Hi jfz9580m...yes this is probably in the 1940's...

I'm guessing early 1940s. She married in 1938, and this is after she was married, because there's a lot of my dad's family in that pic.

She was born in 1918.

So your mom was born in say...1947 or 1948?

[jfz9580m]

23. 1949

Very nice pic. I have some black and white pics somewhere very much like these. .
And most of them have tonnes of people I have no familiarity with.

[BurnDoubt]

24. That's a lot of women!!!!

I married into a family of Greeks. They FILLED our house on holidays after our son was born. My wife had to find me in the garage. I was terrified. In my honky family, get-togethers always went haywire, so I was all a-tremble for years.
I really miss those days and all those wacky people. Attrition worked its magic, and now we're a party of five.
They subsumed my honky roots. Now I'm the Avgolemono Soup and Baklava Guy.
Good for you!!! How fortunate you are. You must have some great memories. Smile!!!! Stay with it.

[LuckyCharms]

25. Oh your post makes me smile!

The memories...

I sometimes used to get anxiety around my extended family...simply because they were all hell raisers and there were so many of them.

And they were all kissers...both the men and the women.

If they didn't see you for a few days, and then you met up, you'd end up with a wet face from the kisses!

The memories...everyone is gone now. The losses are hitting me the past few days...I miss those times.

[BurnDoubt]

26. No such thing as Too Much Love!!!!

[Keepthesoulalive]

27. You discuss your mom with much love and admiration

But she seemed a helluva fun person.

[LuckyCharms]

29. I go through periods where I miss her terribly.

She was a pistol, and she kind of had a sixth sense.

She only liked two of my girlfriends over the years...my first girlfriend, and my wife.

She would size people up immediately, and form judgements about them.

I went to visit her in the nursing home once. As I was walking down the hall to her room, an elderly Italian woman grabbed my sleeve and stopped me in my tracks.

She scornfully said "Your mama, she no like me".

[Keepthesoulalive]

31. She may not be here physically

But she raised you well, taught you love and compassion. Her spirit and her legacy are very much alive. You are a testament to her. Keep telling her story, maybe others will learn the lesson she taught.

[OAITW r.2.0]

28. Geez, I didn't know....

you had a mother.

[LuckyCharms]

30. Fuck, that cracked me up!

Holy shit.