Found in a mountain of boxes full of photos from all of my life, this sweet photo that I’m sure I haven’t posted before: of a fine collie (Blaze, by name, according to the note on the back) and Blaze’s boy, who looks like he’s sprung up some in a growth spurt — and his face has left soft childhood and developed fine adult features, though in size S — but hasn’t yet gotten the shot of pubertal testosterone that builds adult muscle mass:
(#1) A boyhood shot, taken ca. 1950, when the boy was 9 or 10
Here he is ca. 1978, plying his adult trade, teaching linguistics:
(#2) Now with a 70s haircut, and now more markedly a man of the south of France (with his mother’s features)Someday he’ll come along
The man I love
And he’ll be big and strong
The man I love
— George and Ira Gershwin
Yes, my leanly muscular man, Jacques Transue, from before all the disastrous things that befell us.
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