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Jul 24th “GO” Grandma!

Grandma is “Getting Older” – and as “Time goes by” – there are things to do to make the future just a little better – than all of the yesterdays! Do you; also receive the same “first” question that I receive –“HOW ARE YOU?” Is this question ask because, you are not looking as good as you did – way back when – or is it because, you really look terrible?

After looking at some old family pictures – some of the family members old pictures that were taken when these members of the family were very young, but they looked like they were born “old looking” – if that is possible? And as I go through these photos – and the same family member is actually getting older and more mature in life – they are now getting younger looking and so much better looking – you begin to wonder what are they doing in “LIFE” to make such a drastic change for the better?

Take for instance Grandma Marie Brady McClarren – I have posted some baby pictures and as a baby and small child her hair was almost “white” – and she was called “Cotton Top” – and then in grade school, her hair was turning blond and in High School she had a very nice shade of brown hair. The highly noticeable difference from the norm – is that when she was in her seventies and died – she had such a thick and full head of the darkest brown hair and no gray and no “old age white” hair as most senior citizens leave this world with? Also, does the placement in the family – her being the 13^th make a difference as to how much of the basic and necessary genes to make color in a body – were there enough left for her to receive her full quota?

The next difference in the old family photos is when looking at the time line photos of Irene Brady Riley? There are no baby photos as she was born in 1888 – and even though the “Family” had money and they did have plenty of professional photographic photos of every man in the family – there are none available of Irene? The few pictures that I have – and that maybe – Irene was not able to get her hands on to destroy – show her as not the best looking of a very young girl – but as “Time goes by” Irene improves in the “Good Looks” department! Irene seems to fill out better and her face fills out and she is a “Good Looking” Senior Citizen!