35/40

I don't know the girl on the left, but the one on the right was my aunt.  Some 35 years after this photograph was taken and 40 years since then, I can still hear her yell at me for combing my hair in her kitchen; she also yelled at me for jabbing food with a sharp knife and putting it in my mouth. She made the best lasagna.  The boy was my uncle, a master mechanic, who rescued me frequently and sometimes my friends. He showed me how to set the internal timing on an aircraft engine magneto.  He showed me again and again.  His patience never failed: I finally got it.


(Photograph by Stephen Ketzer, aka, Grandfather Heretic, circa 1936)