I saw this picture for the first time recently and was shocked to find out it was my grandpa Burl Harrell as an infant. He died in 1970 so I was just a little thing and have only a couple memories of him. I of course only knew him as an old man so to invasive him as a baby had never entered my mind.
Very visible capillaries on his full cheeks is one of my main memories, I guess because of him holding me up high right there at his face when I was 2 to 3 years old. In my own mind, I called them turkey cheeks, I think because they were almost like a dot-to-dot picture and that's what I saw.
I was happy to see this picture at my Aunt JoAnn's. She told me it had been damaged over the years and she had it restored. Something in that process went a little weird in the fingers. He didn't have any extra in real life.
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