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I know these two people - or rather I will. The shutter must click during a second during which year ... 1959? Cutting out a moment for years to come. I wait (unknowingly) until today to see this image for the first time. Thus the peculiar tense required for the verb: a future imperfect?

Whose eye frames the picture?* A passerby? A friend or relative along for the trip? And why does my father remind me of the young Marlon Brando?

And yet not everything is a mystery. Someone (Dad?) had the presence of mind to record what was on the menu -

A picnic, then.

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* & then it dawns on me: nobody's. The camera had been set with a delay. "We did a lot of that sort of thing in those days" (Mum).