A Good Sister is a Great Friend

How my sister forgave my crime of fashion

Vivian McInerny
Boomerangs
Published in
3 min readOct 23, 2021

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Wearing the accessory to the crime (photo courtesy of author)

School pictures were like final exams for your face. They went on your permanent record.

Back when good cameras were rare and film unpredictable, a “professional” school picture was the most reliable barometer of who you were and what you wore, albeit a stiff formal portrait version of yourself.

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Vivian McInerny
Boomerangs

Career journalist, essayist, fiction writer, and life-long spirit-quester.