My secret desktop directory over the Christmas holiday was labeled project.xmas and password protected.. I took a photo while I was in Nottingham (UK) of the phone booth where I spent nearly every minute of my time there talking to my new girlfriend.

That girlfriend that I spent all that time talking to in that phone booth is now my wife, and mother of our 3 beautiful daughters.

8 years later, that photo has managed to survive alongside our marriage, children and a grip of exciting adventures together along the way. That said, it *barely* survived. Stuck with some alien form of gooey-gunk to the glass frame that used to hold it, there was no way to extract it and have it reframed.

Technology, skills and a lotta sneaky lovin’ to the rescue. The project.xmas folder contained my scan of the glass that the photo was stuck to, the first step in my restoration attempt, powered by Photoshop and obsessive attention. By Christmas day I had finished (not exactly to my ideal standard, but timing was more important this go-round), reprinted, framed, wrapped and in place to be the last gift discovered.

Have a look, what do ya think?

Merry Christmas from Captain Emo.

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