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While helping my parents tidy the attic last weekend, I found a box of old photographs.
They were black and white, printed on thick paper. Most of them showed people I did not recognise. There were women in long dresses, men in formal suits, children with serious expressions.
My grandmother came over for lunch and I showed her the box. Her face immediately changed. She picked up one photograph and held it for a long time.
It showed a young woman standing in a garden. She was about eighteen years old, smiling at the camera.
That is your great-grandmother, my grandmother said. Her name was Maria. She came from Italy when she was sixteen. She did not speak any English. She worked as a seamstress.
I looked at the photograph again. The woman looked confident and a little proud. I thought about what courage it must have taken to start a new life in a foreign country at sixteen.
My grandmother said she wished she had asked more questions when Maria was alive. You always think there will be more time, she said.
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