My sister and her husband were divorced over five years ago.  Somehow, amidst the chaos of several moves, I ended up with her wedding portraits.

“What should I do with these?” I asked her.

“I don’t know.  I just can’t even look at them right now,” she said.

“They take up a lot of room.  Should I just throw them away?”

“The frames were pretty expensive,” she tells me.

At this point I’m ambivalent myself.  I could care less about the marriage but I would feel weird about throwing away the few happy portraits my niece and nephew would ever have of their parents together.  So I decided to store them away where they were out of plain view and ponder this decision another time.

Ok, it’s another time right now. 

A few years have past and I’m doing Spring Cleaning.  I’ve decided I should see if there is anyway I can use these huge, “expensive” frames.  But as I examine the frames and their various sizes, my ex-brother-in-law gives me an evil glance from his portrait. 

“Is this a sign?” I thought. 

“Why would he care what I do?  

It’s not as though there are any hopes of the family getting back together.  Needless to say, I put the portraits out-of-sight for another few months until I came across some pictures that might look good in those frames. 

“If I don’t get any use out of those frames it will be a huge waste, why should I let my brother-in-law bully me?”

Ok, so I decide to remove the portraits from these huge, heavy and very thick frames so that I can see what I have to work with.  As I carefully separate the glass from the photo I cut myself.  Is this a sign?  Well, I keep going.  It’s just a small cut.  Ouch! I did it again, this time on the wire backing.  Is somebody trying to telll me something?  Are these portraits haunted?  Can anyone give me some advice?

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