Recuperating

I wrote earlier about the tradition of photographing convalescence as a way to memorialize a significant illness.

I don't know what sickness my paternal Grandmother, Tatjana, had contracted when she looked into this lens:

Kaunas, Lithuania, about 1938. Even when she's sick, Tatjana has melancholy eyes that dominate the photo.
 
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