Afghanistan
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This is one of our favorite pictures. Shortly before we came home we hired an Afghan photographer to take photos for us. We were out in our neighborhood and posed our six-year-old daughter with an Afghan girl of the same age. But just when the photographer was about to snap the picture, her brother came running up. We were irritated because we thought he was spoiling the picture, but then we realized that he didn't want his sister pictured in bare feet. He left her his shoes and ran quickly off. The photographer, who witnessed this whole little drama, had his own sense of appropriateness. He did not want the girl to look ridiculous in her brother's oversized shoes and so he snapped the picture so neither girls' feet showed. |