Spread along the table beside her bed, covering her desk, and on her dresser, were more photographs, all beaming, pictures of my aunt and her friends.  They spanned across the last forty years, all showing faces following the contemporary Neiman Marcus trends.  Even while the ladies’ makeup changed according to the decade, their hair did not; always either big and blonde, or big and brown, it stood solid, teased up and out. 

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