Show us what you DON'T look like

[Chiliwailer]

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Who said you could post a pic of me in my teens!!!
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They do say everyone has a twin out there...didn't realise it crossed species though

Do you also now have a shine where there was once plenty?

[T-Bay]

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Think you may have quoted the wrong person. But if you're still interested, my great grandad was involved in supplying the army with horses in WW1, and resettling the few that were left atterwards. In 2014 a television station ran archive footage of the horse resettling, my cousin happened to be watching and recognised the old boy from a family portrait. I was able to record the footage and grab a still. I thought he might like a run out 100 years on so he's been my avatar ever since.
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That is a great story and has genuinely made me smile this morning. I never met my paternal grandfather, he was a member of his local pit rescue and died of silicosis when my Dad was young. He was part of a group spoken to by the great George Orwell as research for his book Road to Wigan Pier (of which I have a treasured 1st edition) but none of his notes survive for that book so we can't find out any more. Families are fascinating things.