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Dad holding Donna

Dad holding me

Donna

Donna, age 6

Linda and Donna just before the accident in 1952. The last picture of the two of them together

The fornal portrait of Donna that hung in my parents' room

Donna holding Linda

Linda holding me, 1954

Linda in her leg brace, but with a bat to play stickball with her friends

The family with Donna and Linda

Linda and me

Me in my cowgirl outfit, much like the one my sister Donna had at this age

Dad and Mom dressed as the Pic-a-Pocket Man and Lady for the Purim Festival at temple

Linda with her best friend, Nancy Boroff, on their way to Girl Scout camp