I want to talk about a photo that holds spatial meaning for me. Uh, it was taken about seven years ago in 2017. Uh, and it features all my extended family. My family is very large because it contains a lot of people. Uh, I had more than ten uncle and four aunt. And they all, they have three or two, three children. So it’s very difficult to gather all of them because everyone has their jobs. And once we gathered together and went to picnic and this photo was taken there. It wasn’t the professional people who take the picture because we were all, you were very casual class and enjoying the time. We don’t even thinking about the picture, but then we want to immortalize that moment. And we find a guy, he doesn’t even know how to take picture. He tries several times then that everyone, like, everyone liked the photo. Nobody actually liked the photo because. But they, they tired. And it was very difficult because the children were’t stay at certain place. They always moved. My old cousins were there from the oldest to the youngest. The youngest one, as, I mean, it was three months, three months years old. I mean, two months. It’s two years old. So, uh, and this photo is very, this is very meaningful for me. But yet I can’t hang on my wall because it didn’t fit the wall. And I have it on my album and also my phone. It was my also computer wall popper. And when I look at my computer, I saw all my family. It’s very sentimental for me. And another reason is that my grandfather ununtunately passed away two years after that, and my cousers moved to another country. So it was the first time and the last time we were all together.
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I want to talk about a photo that holds special meaning for me. It was taken about seven years ago, in 2017, and it features my entire extended family. My family is quite large, with many aunts and uncles. I have more than ten uncles and four aunts, and they all have two or three children. It's always a challenge to get everyone together because everyone has their own lives and jobs. But we managed to gather for a picnic, and that's where this photo was taken. It wasn't a professional photographer who took the picture; we were all just enjoying ourselves, being casual and having a good time. We weren't even thinking about the photo at first, but then we wanted to capture that moment. We found someone, who wasn't even a professional photographer, to take the picture. He tried several times, and eventually, everyone liked the photo, even though it wasn't perfect. It was difficult to get everyone to stay in one place, especially the children, who were constantly moving around. My cousins, from the oldest to the youngest, were all there. The youngest one was only two months old at the time. This photo is incredibly meaningful to me, but I can't hang it on my wall because it's too big. I keep it in my photo album, on my phone, and it used to be my computer wallpaper. Whenever I looked at my computer, I saw all my family, and it was very sentimental for me. Another reason this photo is so special is that my grandfather passed away two years later, and some of my cousins moved to another country. This was the first and last time we were all together as a complete family.
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