Touched and moved by these childhood photos my mother mailed to me as a Valentine as an expression of care and love ...
The hard work which the card refers to (and she too) could include World University and School, as well as her own :) ...
... and inside the card ...
... This following picture was taken about 3 years (1963) earlier probably in Cambridge, Massachusetts (my father was doing part of his medical residency at Harvard), with me naked in a pool on the roof of where we lived (interesting now vis-a-vis my ethnographic focus at Harbin) ...
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