shoe box (object from the past)

The shoe box, now yellowed with age, still contained the old photographs. Chona vaguely remembers how each shot was taken except for a single photograph. It had two smiling children eating mangoes. She knows the children very well. The boy had yellow juice dripping from the side of his mouth while the young girl still had tears in her eyes It was Chona and her twin. But like the other photographs, it had yellowed over the years, as if telling her that memory of that day would also fade. Slowly.

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