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My parents have a large suitcase-looking thing full of photographs. They aren't organized. They're all thrown in there, haphazardly. The strap on the case broke a long time ago because the case is so heavy. It holds thousands of family photographs. My son and I looked through them a little bit, and I picked out a few to share. My dad, for some reason, segregated his old family photographs and keeps them elsewhere. I'm calling this post "Don" because that's the name on the Polaroid. Remember Polaroids? They're terrible, as this photo attests. I actually lightened it and tried to balance the color, but it's still dark and unbalanced. I can't tell what the girl's name says. It actually looks like "Jassi," though that seems strange. It looks like we all wrote our names because the penmanship is different for each.  Anyway, who are Don and Jassi? Many years ago when my family still lived in Hot Springs, there was a program during sc...