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This is my dad Mike and my step mother Nelta. Again, Jon set up the shot with remote flashes, and no kidding, I had to do the SHINGLES! dance to get my dad to smile. This is one of maybe five photographs of him in existence wherein he is smiling. I think I inherited that tendency from him, to freeze up and go stone cold blank when the camera is turned on me. Maybe because cameras steal souls?