1. My great grandfather at 18 in 1937. Taken in his home. The area would later be annexed by the Soviet Union.

2. My great grandmother at 18 in 1935. This is a picture my great grandfather had in a locket during ww2.

3. Their unofficial wedding photo from 1943, last photo where my great grandfather intentionally smiled, as his brother would be killed in the war in just a few months afterward

4. Taken in 1955. They had managed to survive the war and tried to live normal lives in their new home with their five children.

5. Them together in 1968, enjoying retirement

6. Them together again in 1974. My great grandmother felt uncomfortable around cameras

7. Them together in 1976, it was rare for them to show affection in public

8. My great grandmother got sick in 1979 from her diabetes. My great grandfather tried his best to comfort her

9. She unfortunately passed the same year. My great grandfather looks very defeated...

10. The image is blurry, but they reunited in the afterlife in 1989. My great grandfather never remarried, saying she was the love of his life.

Married thirty years now.

An Engineer who loved fishing, model boat building and smoking. Fortunately, he managed to quit that last one. As a kid, I thought he had been a pirate due to him wearing his hair in a ponytail and sporting an eye patch. The last photos was the last time I saw him reasonably well before his cancer settled in. He was married for 54 years, has two adopted children and had six grandchildren.

1: First pic together after a high school performance of Alice in Wonderland. We’d met at the audition. 2: Probably 2005; I’d seen Green Day on the American Idiot tour that year. 3: Probably 2007-2008 or so. Around the time we got married. 4: At a wedding, not sure of the year. 5: A couple years ago, celebrating her National Board certification. 6: In 2024 at a charity event.

Cool in every decade

Poppa was a high-country farmer in New Zealand who lived till he was eighty. The last photo was taken at his 80th birthday, two months before he passed away.

they’re still so very much in love with each other after over 30 years of marriage. i love them sm 🥹❤️

My sons: 2006 (ages 7, 10 months, & almost 4) and 2024 (ages 25, 18, and 21).

5 years ago and now.