1. Before the volcano erupts, we can still play catch on the beach for as long as we feel like it.
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2. In his mind, he is the hero—the cowboy that can defeat all evil enemies.
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3. The ominous electric blue surrounded the fluorescent peak—an icy reminder of the hot monsoon.
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4. The child, unaware of the saline conditions of the aquarium, removed the writhing fish from its artificial home to play Ocean in the bathtub.
Photograph by Loretta Lux.
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5. The model with the dwarfed limbs and heavy head strolls on her garden runway.
Photograph by Loretta Lux.
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6. In preparation for the dinner dishes, the pink rubber gloves hang in the sizzling sun, wicking away soapy water and melting into human shapes.
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7. Their mother placed them shoulder to shoulder for a Christmas card, realizing that their uncanny resemblance required no more than one of them for the photograph.
Photograph by Diane Arbus.
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8. At four thirty in the morning, the audacious young lovers escaped the chase through lower Manhattan on his rickety stolen bicycle.
Photograph by Daniel Weiss.
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9. Leap frog will still live inside their hearts when these boys grow up, but they will put the game—and their lives—on hold.
Photograph by Daniel Weiss.
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10. She told her sweet child, “Never be like me.”
Photograph by Diane Arbus.
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onenutcake // January 21, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Cloe you have a way with words. I wonder what would happen though if your sentences didn’t caption your photos so much but were a refelction of the first thing that these photos make think of?