When Did Cute Stop Being Cute? (standard:humor, 902 words)
Author: Godspenman	Added: Apr 26 2015	Views/Reads: 2180/1647	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
I like to think that under all of the grimacing and scowling and wrinkles there is that cute little boy that was once me.

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there were many pictures I did not recognize, but this little boy 
puzzled me. 

I always thought I had a good memory, but this really perplexed me. Who
was this little boy that was part of my life 60 years ago or so? 

My wife noticed I was grimacing as I looked at the photographs.
Incidentally, all of the photographs were black-and-white. Most do not 
remember those days. Finally, my wife queried me on what was going on. 

“I just cannot figure out who this little boy is in all these pictures.”


I handed the photographs to her, she looked at them and then a smile
began dancing across her face. 

“You really don't know who that little boy is,” she said flippantly. 

When I assured her I had no idea who that little boy was, she broke out
in hearty laughter. I did not think it was funny. There was this little 
boy all through my photographs and I do not know who he was. 

“Why,” she said when she could speak, “that little boy is you.” Then she
commenced her laughing parade. 

I looked again and I really could not believe it. Here was this cute
little boy with a mischievous smile on his face and it was me. I have 
looked in the mirror many a time and that cute little face has long ago 
disappeared. Whatever happened to that cute little boy in the 
photographs? When does cute stop being cute? And why? 

David might have been thinking along this line when he wrote, “O God,
thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy 
wondrous works” (Psalms 71:17). 

I like to think that under all of the grimacing and scowling and
wrinkles there is that cute little boy that was once me. 


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