photo booth

Once upon a time a girl with long raven hair sat down in a photo booth. She had three pieces of paper on her lap that she'd prepared earlier with a different word on each piece.

She put the coins in the machine, held the first piece of paper up making sure it showed up properly on the screen. Four flashes later and the booth imprinted the special message with her smiling face behind each piece of paper. The message was simple and pure.

The raven hair is now shorter, the girl is older and wiser. She's a little world weary and bruised. But if she went into a photo booth again she'd use the same three pieces of paper with the same three words. In fact, she'd add a fourth piece of paper with an additional word: still, despite, because.

The message would still be as simple as when the girl with the long raven hair photographed it.