SHE WAS A GOOD MOTHER AND PROVIDED WHEN WE WERE YOUNG. LATER YEARS DRUGS AND ALCOHOL BROUGHT HER DOWN, OUR FAMILY SPLIT UP WHEN MY FATHER DIVORCED HER, WE WERE ALL SO YOUNG WHEN OUR FAMILY SPLIT UP. I WAS 14 WHEN I RAN AWAY AND WAS ON MY OWN. MY TWO SISTERS WERE ALSO DRUG ADDICTS. MY DAD MOVED NORTH AND THEN MOVED BACK TO THE SOUTH AND REMARRIED.
Portrait photographs and paintings of our loved ones and ancestors.
Before photos we had paintings of family members - most usually these were reserved for the well off. The era of modern photography began with the daguerreotype, in 1839. Since the advent of photogr...