Too Hip for the Holidays

Remember when you stopped believing? Good news: you could start again

Most families, at some point in time, come across photographs they had forgotten about. Someone opens a drawer or a box, pulls out an album that had been gathering dust. And images from the past--memories of holidays, vacations--peel back the years' shadows. If you're part of a public family, there is a good chance such photographs might emerge on eBay. That's what happened to us. My mother, who does not own a computer, was informed that a large number of family pictures were being offered on eBay. She authorized the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library (where there are computers) to buy them...

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