2 Sisters

An old black & white picture of my own personal collection. 2 bourgeois sisters in a dramatically different pose. It is wintertime in New York City, c. 1926 and my mother and her sister – Cissy & Tish, respectively, are wearing the most precious matching wool and fur trimmed coats, and little stocking caps. The photographer has posed them on a little perch, and my mother, age 5, holds hands with her older sister, age 6. Tish leans into her little sister, and both are wearing smiles, little faint, little girl smiles, that reflect the closeness they will have with each other their entire lives.

(2/15/04 would have been Mom’s 83rd birthday – the day after Valentine’s Day)