Photographers

I don’t remember taking many photos when I was a little kid. I’ve seen a few of me when I was 4 or 5 (I was quite cute), but I can’t recall ever getting my photo made with Santa. Maybe it was because we were dirt poor. No, really, we were. I wore hand-me-down underwear. That kind of poor. Or maybe my parents were just strict Baptists who didn’t believe in the commercialization of Christmas. They were the same people who thought dancing, drinking, and fishing on Sunday would send you straight to hell. I don’t recall if I ever heard either of my parents say, “Jesus is the reason for the season.” Maybe it was just the Methodists who said that. They were a little more contemporary than us stodgy Baptists. We believed you weren’t really saved unless the preacher held you under the water until he saw bubbles. So, I have not had a lot of experience with people and children taking ‘formal’ Christmas photos.

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