VINTAGE ME, DAY 19

DAY 19 of #HAWMC — post a vintage image of myself and write a caption about it.

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• 6 months after my siblings spun me around in my father's office chair, sending me flying into the furnace.

• 3 years before I would slice my lip on a broken china cup while pretending to sip tea with my dolls.

• 4 years before I would see the Pieta at the New York World's Fair.

• 7 years before I would develop a fear of dogs after being bitten by a German Shepherd, leaving me with a scar near my eye...

• 11 years before I would hit the brakes too hard while peddling downhill, sending me flying over my bicycle's handlebars — and to the hospital with a concussion.

• 14 years before I would see The Anne Frank House in Amsterdam.

• 16 years before I would take the stage in summer stock theatre.

• 22 years before I would accept a job in New York City.

• 24 years before my sister would be diagnosed with breast cancer at age 31.

• 26 years before I would run in my first (and only) marathon.

• 27 years before I would see Europe at Christmastime.

• 28 years before I would drive cross-country for the second time.

• 33 years before I would be diagnosed with Graves Disease.

• 39 years before I would accept a new job in a different city, quit my old job, and then change my mind (leaving me unemployed).

• 41 years before 9/11, after which I would drive cross-country twice more.

• 45 years before I would become a dog lover.

• 47 years before my father would die.

• 48 years before I would become a stepmother.

• 49 years before I would become a step-grandmother.

• 50 years before I would be diagnosed with breast cancer.