A PICTURE SPEAKS A THOUSAND WORDS

She Always Hated Being Photographed, and the Proof Was in an Old Photos Shoe Box

The irony, if there was one.

Adelina Vasile
The Memoirist
Published in
5 min readFeb 28, 2022

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Photo by Adelina Vasile

Me at the age of four, in the summer of 1993, in rural Romania. Bawling my eyes out for being forced to take this photograph.

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Adelina Vasile
The Memoirist

Mother, educator, journalist, copywriter. I write about the things I need to learn myself.