The power of the holiday photo (The Guardian, U.K.)

As we grow up, we are ripped from that present into something more exquisitely painful: nothing stays still however much we need it to. What remains fixed are these holiday snaps in which, four decades on, I now find myself as a near stranger. As we change they stay still, rebuking us, baffling us, touching us where it hurts most.
By Stuart Jeffries. Read the article in The Guardian.
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