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Family Picnic

Treasure can come in different forms. You might not normally associate cardboard boxes or plastic bags with treasure, but my precious inheritance of family photographs arrived to my door in cardboard boxes and plastic bags over twenty years ago.

A number of years before that the photographs travelled from our family home – a flat in Dublin city – to my sister Marie’s home in Dundrum, after the death of my mother. I didn’t really have a lot of time to spend looking at the old photographs as life was busy then with my own family and with work.

However, I inherited a lifetime of family photographs after my sister passed away suddenly in 1999. By then, I was the only member of my family left. I felt too sad to pour over the bags and boxes of photographs and family possessions so I put them away in our attic to sort through at some future time.

My sister and brother were a good bit older than me and a lot of the

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