{"id":115,"date":"2012-07-15T15:18:43","date_gmt":"2012-07-15T23:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melanieannportraits.com\/?p=115"},"modified":"2013-03-15T20:51:29","modified_gmt":"2013-03-16T04:51:29","slug":"she-was-small","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.melanieannportraits.com\/?p=115","title":{"rendered":"she was small"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last week my sister came to visit me.<\/p>\n

Her near week-long visit went by fast. I wasn\u2019t ready for her to go.<\/p>\n

As I watched her walk out and pack her truck, get in and settle for a long journey home I thought of when she was a toddler.<\/p>\n

A particular moment passed by my brain where Emily was wearing a grey ruffled dress and opening the bottom drawer of the oven pulling out pots and pans so she could sit inside the drawer herself.<\/p>\n

Her hair was in tiny pigtails that shot straight out the sides like shorter versions of Pippy Longstocking tails.<\/p>\n

Being an older sister by twelve years, I find myself thinking of those moments more and more as time passes.\u00a0 When those thoughts of the past come up, I then feel a need to watch over her like a mother would now that our own mother is gone.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not a mother. But I am a sister. I hope I can fulfill this need.<\/p>\n

I cried when she was walking out the front door to her car, as I do every time my family leaves after a visit.<\/p>\n

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I remembered when I was fourteen dressing Emily up and telling her to stand against an empty wall in my room for a photograph.<\/p>\n

She was small and eager to do it.<\/p>\n

I had a royal blue, terrycloth tube top I wore in the early 80\u2019s which I wrapped around her and over her diaper like a mini-skirt, with her own striped toddler tee and sunglasses.<\/p>\n

Even then I was thinking of models and fashion, an early attempt at portraiture.<\/p>\n

I still love the idea of all of those things and found myself again, before she left for home, dressing her up, telling her to stand against a wall and taking her portrait.<\/p>\n

I get to watch her and my other sister grow, mature, be successful.\u00a0 She\u2019s growing up and so am I, as a daughter, a sister, a photographer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Last week my sister came to visit me. Her near week-long visit went by fast. I wasn\u2019t ready for her to go. As I watched her walk out and pack her truck, get in and settle for a long journey home I thought of when she was a toddler. A particular moment passed by … <\/p>\n

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