clone wars

There's been some debate regarding the Fuss's appearance.
Not whether he looks like me (he does), so much as the wife declaring him my clone and making public comments along the lines of "yes, I birthed his spawn."

I have resisted this description up to now, pointing out what I felt was his mother's ears and feet in miniature (indisputable), her nose (a point of contention) and several features relevant to neither parent, namely his bright red hair and Scarlett Johansson-esque lips.

Alas, I am giving up the battle and declaring unconditional surrender.
Indeed, she birthed my spawn.

I found a briefcase full of slides in a closet this afternoon,taken by mom's dad Walter, an avid amateur photographer who worked only in that exotic format. I'd never seen any of them- there were pictures of dad graduating from college, pictures of me hours after my birth, pictures of one of my childhood dogs, a sheaf of crazy, disorienting stuff.

The most alarming was a photo of me at a few months old with a shock of reddish hair. My brain momentarily locked up, unable to reconcile how my long deceased grandfather had taken a picture of the Fuss.

There's some way to get slides onto a computer, isn't there?
I really need to get some of these on Flickr, they're amazing.