in the shadow of the valley of your family tree

Around the time I was born. It's rather startling to realize how like Jill she looks -- but it makes sense.


Luciana and Marceline. Marius had been born by this point -- I, obviously, had not.

Marius' parents. This is how I best recall them.

I didn't think I had any pictures left of my father, but this one, perhaps, is essential to my new understanding of the situation among the parents of Marius and me.

I have little to say about Antoinette; she shouldn't have been born, in every way.

My cousin, the year his father died. He looks triumphant, of course.


She died because of all of their sins, I think. Or, that's what I'd say if I believed in sin.