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What I like most about this picture is that Noah is just visible in the far room. Somehow it makes it better for me knowing that another branch of the family is represented. I think I'm correct in saying that these three share the same great-great grandparents. They were Northern European Jews who fled their country of birth due to persecution. There's been a fair bit of migration since then, so one of these children was born in Leeds, one in Montreal and one in San Francisco. You probably wouldn't imagine that they were close cousins, either through blood ties or geography.
The street scenes above the piano look like Leeds to me, the city where, first cousins, Alex's Grandmother, and Grace and Noah's grandfather were born. The family portrait is from Alex's grandfather's family, almost all of the people pictured died in the Holocaust.
People often say "families are funny things", and I suppose they mean that each family makes its own rules. I like that Alex and Grace were sharing the piano companionably but mostly I like that Noah is visible too, he reminds me that it doesn't matter how sprawled apart we are, because when we come together we're family.
duet
What I like most about this picture is that Noah is just visible in the far room. Somehow it makes it better for me knowing that another branch of the family is represented. I think I'm correct in saying that these three share the same great-great grandparents. They were Northern European Jews who fled their country of birth due to persecution. There's been a fair bit of migration since then, so one of these children was born in Leeds, one in Montreal and one in San Francisco. You probably wouldn't imagine that they were close cousins, either through blood ties or geography.
The street scenes above the piano look like Leeds to me, the city where, first cousins, Alex's Grandmother, and Grace and Noah's grandfather were born. The family portrait is from Alex's grandfather's family, almost all of the people pictured died in the Holocaust.
People often say "families are funny things", and I suppose they mean that each family makes its own rules. I like that Alex and Grace were sharing the piano companionably but mostly I like that Noah is visible too, he reminds me that it doesn't matter how sprawled apart we are, because when we come together we're family.