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below: mum's people
in czechoslovakia |
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above: oma + papa
in indonesia |
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above: papa in indonesia |
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right: papa the lady killer |
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left: opa, lady killer
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right: mum looking
right striking |
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left: mum as a girl
+ as a bathing beauty |
right: mum partying
before being
domesticated |
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right: mum
playing the piano
after being
domesticated |
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above: papa's
little family
in indonesia |
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right: in 1957 papa
up and decides
to immigrate
to the united states |
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above: mum's family
when mum was small |
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left: mum's people
get hitched in high style |
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left: mum's papa (above) makes the st. louis post-dispatch for getting married to a good cook |
above: mum makes
the post-dispatch
for hitchhiking
through europe
-- her papa disapproves,
of course
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left: one of mum's people -- surely a good cook -- looking rather fortress-like |
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right: life without little jeanie was mighty dull
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left:
little jeanie
shows up
+ life is a party
24/7 |
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left: papa +
grandson alejandro |
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left: alejandro
eating oranges |
right: papa's
granddaughter
paloma elena
thinks ballet rocks |
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above: syd and frank
celebrate a new year |
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above and right:
papa's great-granddaughter |
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left: spice,
who lives with papa
and adores him 24/7 |
above: papa |
below: mum -- she
can taste canary |
below: oma having
eaten canary |
below: mum --
the world her oyster
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left: papa |
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right: opa |
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left: rick thompson, ace partner in crime, attempts mexico escape in 1996 — jeanie finds him, talks him into one last heist |
right: considering
the perks of michigan
with claudia
far right: on the lam
with rick in montana |
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left: rick, the early days in iowa
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above: fun in new orleans with michelle |
right: jeanie roams rome,
never wants to come home |
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above: mum + dad
seal deal, 1959 |
| left: mum, 1958 passport |
right: mum's grandfather,
missouri house |
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| left: jeanie ate your canary |
below: mum wondering
into what she hitchhiked |
above: mum travels
anywhere she wants now |
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top: christmas in, like, 1974
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below: jeanie finds
her inner worker
at romanian
commie monument
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left: papa with his sisters |
below: mum + papa enjoy like 5 minutes of childlessness |
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top: the beautiful ones
— aka michele + tim — celebrate michele's
mastering
of the master's |
right: paloma, little lady |
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left: alejandro and paloma partying; partying with rick + jeanie (below left); where jeanie + rick live, (below) ... |
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left: the straub sisters in a like totally famous 1970s TV ad for bell-bottom jeans. below: rick + spice. |
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left: in romania jeanie demonstrates how hip it is to dress all in black 24/7 |
top: mum + papa
when benjamin albert
was just a puppy |