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Magic photo...

Bronwen, age 9 months, taken Christmas Day 1991.

Earlier that year my stepfather came to the realization that he was the same age his own father was when he worked himself to death. So, as he had a very successful restaurant at the time (the only lunch spot inside the Disney Channel building), he cashed in and took us all on vacation.

All... as in, eleven of us.

To the Bahamas.

How the picture-in-a-picture came to be: Bronwen had been napping on my chest while we swung in a hammock at the side of a lagoon on Salt Cay in the Bahamas. You might recognize some views of it, as it's where they filmed some of the exterior shots for the TV show Gilligan's Island and it's the lagoon Daryl Hannah comes out of in Splash.

Kim and Torrey (who had just turned four) were playing at the water's edge, building a sand castle, and Bronwen and I took a nap.

The ship's photographer came up and took this picture. (I took the picture OF it, hanging on the wall of my mother's guest bedroom...)

Ever since, for the last 17 years, when I see this photograph I'm there on the island, with the high scrim of clouds filtering the tropical sun, the warm smell of my baby daughter nestled in the crook of my arm.

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