Year FIVE of the 30 Strangers Portrait Project and fundraiser is about to begin. Once again, we’ll be doing portraits of mothers and daughters (2, 3, or 4 generations–crossing my fingers for 5) and raising money for the Center for Women and Children in Crisis.
What is 30 Strangers??
A Justin Hackworth Photography project. It works like this. For the entire month of June 2012, I will make a portrait of a mother and daughter every day. 30 portraits – 30 days. The $250 session fee is waived. Instead, well ask participants to donate $50 to the Center for Women and Children in Crisis, in Provo. Then, in September, we’ll have an exhibit and you’re all invited.
Update – Thanks so much for all the great stories. We’ll be reading through them as fast as we can and making the selections very soon.
Pick me! Pick me! Pick me! How do I get picked??
Hold on, tiger. I’d love to pick you, so please leave a comment on this blog post. Keep in mind, there are some guidelines. Please read carefully.
- Tell us why you’re a great fit for the project. It might include the following: 1) the interesting, compelling story of your mother/daughter relationship, triumphs, happy times…
2) how many generations you can bring - If possible (but not a deal breaker) we’d love to include some ethnic diversity for this year’s project, so if that describes you, please mention it.
- It’s not called 30 Strangers for nothing. To participate, you and I must have never met. Although we’ll be strangers when I photograph you, I certainly hope we don’t remain that way. Part of what makes this project great is the new friends I get to meet.
- Also, we’re looking for people that are age 6 to 108. Why not under the age of 6? Too fidgety. Why not over 108? There are some stairs to my office. (Well, there’s also an elevator).
- When you leave a comment on the blog, be sure to include your email address. Don’t worry. Your email won’t show up for all to see, but I’ll be able to see it and get a hold of you if (when!) you are selected.
- Very important – Please mention 3 days that will work best for you, that will really help me out when coming up with a schedule. Remember, this is for June 2012.
- Most portrait sessions will take place at 4:00pm each day at my studio in Provo.
- We welcome out-of-towners! In the last couple of years, about half of the participants came from outside Utah. Howdy, stranger.
Then what happens?
From the comments, we’ll pick 2012’s 30 Strangers. You have until April 30 at midnight to comment. If you are selected, we’ll email you and you must respond to my email within two days to confirm your day and time.
Final details?
Please don’t say your mom can come until after you’ve checked with her (speaking from experience, here). We want to make sure you understand the guidelines and that you have all the info you’ll need. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact me.
What do I get out of it?
I’m glad you asked. You’ll be part of this historic project and donating to a good cause. You’ll experience an artistic, professional portrait session with the most important people in your life. I’ll create something personal and unique that will become more important to you over time. Your portrait will be part of an exhibit that will take place in September 2012 at Brigham Young University. Each session will receive one signed 8×10 fine art print and further prints will be available for purchase.
If you have additional questions, some of them may be answered here. If you don’t see the answer there, don’t hesitate to contact me.
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I hear quite often how much my 6 year old daughter looks like me, and I would be a very lucky woman if it were true. I think she is such a wonderful girl, so sweet, so funny, full of spirit, and just a smidgeon shy. She is a true middle child and I would love the opportunity to do something truly special with her.
The first, third and fourth week of June works well for us.
My sweet mom was adopted as an infant. She was adopted into a later broken family that left her without a real sense of belonging. Thankfully she created a beautiful family with 3 daughters, a son & 13 grandchildren. All 3 of her daughters, including me, will be in town the first 2 weeks of June before a cross country move. I would love to do this for her. We do not look alike and I think this project will help her see some of her amazing qualities that she has passed onto us. It will provide her with a visual reminder of her worth as a woman and a mother. Although we don’t have 5 generations to photograph, I want to show her that she is the beginning of something great. We have lots of baby girls but only 2 are over 6
Thanks for your consideration.
I’d like to submit a sort of different generational idea. I lost my mom when I was 11 to a car accident. The void of losing my mom was big but many amazing women help to fill it so I could become who I am today. However, my favorite goes to my mother-in-law who quickly became one of my best friends 9 years ago.
Two + years after I was married, we found out a little girl was on her way. I missed my mom more than ever during this time. I wanted her there to guide me, talk to me, help me. My angel mother-in-law was there to temporarily take my mom’s place. She stood at my shoulders as I delivered my baby girl & I felt that void fill in. She went from my friend to something more. When we came home with our new baby girl the house was spotless & homemade chicken noodle soup was on the stove. I felt what my husband got to have growing up, a mom.
Now 2 boys later she is the best “Grammy” our kids could ask for. She is one amazing woman & we’d love to have a chance to have you take a 3 “generation” photo of us.
PS: She lives in Colorado but will be in Utah 2 different times in June. (June 8th or 15th, possibly the mornings of June 9th or 16th)
There are 3 sisters wedged between 2 brothers in my family and a portrait of the women in my family would be so special for my mother. My youngest sister is 17, next sister is 20 and I am 24. We all have a very wonderful yet different relationship with my mom. She is the glue that holds our family together, especially the crazy sisters. She has been our biggest fan throughout our lives and never tires of listening to us even though she has probably heard it before. The past month has been special for us sisters because we have been able to be a support to my mom. Her father passed away and it was so hard for her. My mom would never ask for help but my sisters and I knew she needed us and we gave her love and support in our own ways. It has been beautiful and our relationship with our mom has grown so much since we have been able to be there for her. We would love a portrait of the 4 of us to represent a time when the relationship shifted and we have been able to give our mom support after receiving her support for so many years. Early to mid June would be best for us!
I have 3 sons and 1 daughter. My daughter Liberty (8) brings complete joy to my life. She is a loving, caring, helpful, fun-loving girl, beautiful. I know that doing a project like this would be a delight for the two of us. To have a portrait documenting us at this time of our lives would be priceless. We are available any day in June. You name it we will be there! Thank you! Even if we aren’t chosen I think what you are doing is wonderful!
I would love to enter. I have 1 daughter and 2 sons. My daughter is 6 and the oldest. She is always such a big help to me with her little brothers. She really is such a joy to be around and very perceptive of others & their feelings even at her young age. I think sometimes as the oldest she gets a lot of responsibilty put on her. I would love to do this for her and have it be something special with just the two of us!
Any 3 days in June would work for me. We live in Santaquin so just a quick trip up your way!
When I was pregnant with my first child oh how I wanted it to be a girl. All I wanted was to be a mother to a amazing little person and that is exactly what I got. All on her own she is becoming the most amazing child I know. Se is full of life and beautiful inside and out, so brilliant, caring, sensitive, tender, and kind. Her biggest wish has always been for a sister especially after receiving twin brothers. She loves them and is an awesome big sister but they were a big handful for mom and she lost that spotlight for awhile. This would be truly a special thing we could do together that wold not be about any boys but just the girls. I am also pregnant with our fourth child( which we just found out is a girl!). Both my mother and my sister are also extremely close to my sweet girl -who is 8- and have special relationships with her. We would be truly grateful for this opportunity Thank you.
I live on the same street as my mom. My great aunt lives in the neighborhood. My my mom’s two sisters are down the street. My sister is on the corner. People make fun of us all the time for being so close and the crazy thing is I feel guilty about it. Like I’m supposed to feel bad that I like spending time with my family. Then I hang out with them and I don’t worry any more. My mom pulls her brood back to the dinner table on Sundays with offers of delicious, tempting food. Most Sundays she feeds about 35 of us at an extra-long dining table she designed years ago before her life got turned upside down.
On the cusp of age 40 with 7 kids, she and my dad sold their little farm and changed the course of all of our lives. They moved us to a new state so my dad could go to law school. She transitioned from full-time motherhood to full-time career, providing for our family while my dad was in school and coming home at night to do laundry, cook meals, and help with homework. I can barely imagine doing that with one child, I have no idea how she had the courage to do with it with seven of us. Somehow we all survived law school but I never looked at my mother the same way again. I had seen her rise to do very difficult things every day and she never looked back. Several years later, she and my dad built a modest house and became homeowners again after nearly decade and much of it came about because of her tenacity and sweat at making her dreams come true. She couldn’t afford a painter, so she and my dad spent 9 weeks–every night and weekend–painting the house themselves. She wanted tile in the entry way but couldn’t afford the labor so she taught herself how to do it and laid the tile in the entry and bathrooms. She’s small in stature but a giant in my eyes.
I can bring my tiny blonde mother, my two tall, blonde sisters, my brown-haired chubby self and my sister’s half-Chinese daughter with long dark hair and chocolate chip eyes. My grandmothers have both passed away but my great aunt (my neighbor) would be our 4th generation. We could come June 6, 7, or 14th. That would be about a week before my baby sister enters the MTC for an LDS mission. You see after law school and before they built the house, my mom dreamed about one other thing–a little girl. And she had her 21 years ago this June.
We are a very tight-knit family with 4 generations of women. I grew up in the heart of Las Vegas, with my Nana and Poppy living just up the street from us. When I was in college, my parents moved out to the suburbs, and Nana and Poppy moved a few blocks away. When I got married, my husband and I moved just down the street from my folks, and when I had our first child–a sweet little baby girl–my mom watched her every day while I went to work and my husband went to grad school. Just before our daughter’s 1 birthday, we moved to Oregon for a job, and it was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done! There were many tears and lots of long-distance phone calls! Luckily, last October, we finally talked my parents into moving up here too, and a few months later, Nana and Poppy followed. So we are all together again, but in Eugene instead of Las Vegas! We have dinner together several times a week, and everyone comes to soccer games, birthday parties, church talent shows, and school assemblies!
My sweet Nana just turned 83, my mom is 58, I’m 33, and my oldest daughter is now 6, so we have four wonderful generations! We’d be traveling from Oregon, but have a family reunion on July 1st in SLC. We’d love to be involved and could come at the very end of June, with the 30th being our first choice, then the 29th, then the 28th.
PS–I have 3 cute sisters too that could tag along; we are a family of women!!
I would love to participate in this project and finally get to know you!! Let’s see all the ways we are connected. We’re family! Your dad is my grandma’s cousin and I’ve had lots of funny conversations with them. Leah Wright is my best friend. Cher (my sis-in-law) did it last year. I have a soon to be 7 year old daughter and I’m sure we could get my mom to be in town also. I would love to do this!!
I love being a mother and I feel that my girls are my walking hearts. I have two daughters and they do not even look related, they are my halves. My one daughter has caramel skin and silky brown hair from my Asian background, while my other daughter took every ounce of my European heritage and can’t be in the sun for very long and has stunning blue eyes. They are both mine, completely different, but loved just the same (late june works the best for us).
What a wonderful project to help women and children in need. I’m the oldest of six girls and my mom really looks like she could be one of my sisters. She’s not only beautiful but one of the kindest, happiest and extremely talented woman that I know. She sewed every single wedding dress by hand for her daughters and has sewn over 60 bridesmaid dresses and flower girl dresses. Most of my sisters and I live here in Utah but we’ll be blessed to have my mom here for a visit in June. The best days for a shoot would be June 2oth, 21st or 22nd. During that time she will be assisting my sister with a children’s theatre camp and bringing her last son to the MTC for a mission.
What a beautiful project! It would be such an honor to participate with you. After growing up with only one sister and six brothers, I naturally assumed I would have boys of my own someday. When our third daughter in a row was born, I looked at my husband warily and said, “I don’t know what these girls are thinking coming to our home. I have no idea what I’m doing!” Now they are 14, 12, and 11 years old and so much more than I could ever ask for. They are beautiful, smart, and most importantly, kind.
I’d love to include my mother in this picture because she shaped who I am as a woman and who I want to be as a mother. She has set an amazing example of love and service, including two church missions in Eastern Europe, and I’d love to get a meaningful shot of all of us before she leaves again. Lastly, thank you for the opportunitiy to reflect on my family. It’s what I needed today.
In my haste to enter, I neglected to give you any dates. As far as we’re concerned, any day in June would be fine for us. We’d love to make the trip to Provo. Thank you again!
Hello Justin,
Firstly, thank you for this opportunity. I am the only child to my parents. Like every family, we’ve had good times & rough times. My mother is an exceptional woman who is my hero, managing to smile through whatever life deals her. I am a mother now, only to a precious man-cub. I would love an opportunity for us; average, everyday mother & daughter, to smile brightly for our loved ones, your fans, as well as give to someone in need.
We could be available on Fri, Sat, or Sundays the first two weekends in June.
Sincere thanks for your time & consideration,
Annabelle xo
Hola Justin, wow, what a fun opportunity! I too am an only child so having a daughter was such a blessing to me becuase it brought back beautiful memories of my own childhood. After delivering our daughter, I went thru a very difficult medical challenge. There was a point where peace came over me & I thought that for sure I was leaving this precious earth. But Heavenly Father had a greater plan, I pulled thru & here we are! Enjoying motherhood everyday, every minute!
We are Hispanic (you said to mention diversity). My daughter is 5 but she is not fidgety at all. I do have a pic of 4 generations, my grandmother, my mother, myself & daughter. My grandmother has passed away though. Anyhow, this would be such a fun opportunity for us. Thanks.
My mother and I have been quite the pair. My only sister married and moved away when she was 18 and I was 8. My dad was a police officer and worked afternoon shifts. My mother and I would spend the evenings doing my homework, popping popcorn and playing card games. When I was 14 years old my parents divorced. My mother and I were thrown into a world of uncertainty with only each other for support. Our relationship grew exponentially. Now, a mother myself, I understand with better exactness what she sacrificed for me through the years. My mother is beginning to show the very early signs of memory loss (something that runs in my family) and I would be honored to be able to share this experience with her and add this to OUR list of memories. I dare say that any day in June would be acceptable for us to be able to participate in the amazing project with you.
because my kids are too young to hold many memories of their grandmother so I will be the story teller of her amazing life and example. our photo will set the stage for their imaginations…cancer survivor twice, small mining town girlhood, mother of 6, widowed to soon, business owner, mover and shaker, world traveler, art collector, veracious reader and theologian. mostly i want a great photo of her because she is beautiful and we deserve it after all these years together.
Sorry, dates…We can make any dates but the second weekend in June. Mom is taking her grandkids to yellowstone.
When I was a teenager, my friends liked to be around my mom, more than me, most of the time. Occasionally, boys would stop by to see me, but if I wasn’t home, that didn’t matter. They would often stick around, and have lengthy chats with my mom instead.
She is a high school choir teacher now, and those teenagers still love to “hang out” in her classroom. She is just so easy to talk and never judges. My own teen and preteen daughters (one each), both adore her as well, and we think this photograph would be a wonderful gift for her. I mentioned it to her and she insisted she not be in the photo. She says she is not photogenic, but I know better. She is beautiful inside and out.
We will (all 4 of us) be in Provo on June 22, so hopefully that day works well for you. Thanks.
My mom is the sweetest angel on earth. She has endured pain, sorrow, and trials with children.. and her husband/my dad. And continues to deal with my Dad and his young onset Parkinsons. She is the strongest person i Know.. but still eluminates this sweet spirit. My sister and I are very very close to her.. as we are to my grandmother.
There is a possibility to bring 5 generations. But here is what might break that deal for you.. haha..
My daughter- age 3. Me (23), My sister(22) if accepted too, my mom(49), my grandma(70-somethin), and my great-grandma(90). My Great-grandma is actually my grandpa’s mother and not my grandmas. But My great grandma took care of my grandma like her own growing up. She is 90 yrs old and a feisty woman. She is here from Peru visiting our family through the summer.
My mom, grandma, and great grandma are from Peru. So I am half. We are proud of our heritage and these women are the most lively, young hearted, women I know.
Also I might mention that I am 27 weeks pregnant now.
Last few weekends in June we could be available. June 23 or 30? We are open on dates as long as it’s later in June.
I have loved these photographs over the years and would love the opportunity to be a part of it.
I have wanted to do this each year, but our daughter moved to Las Vegas, then San Diego, and I never had the chance to have her here for this event. She and her little family moved back up here quickly last fall after my hubs was diagnosed with a terminal illness and given a few months to live, and they are helping us through this time. We are both going through some unique challenges, I losing my mate of 34 years, she losing her Dad of 24 years. He is still with us, he inspires us, and although we haven’t a clue as to why this is happening, we are making the best of things. Now, more than ever, I am learning to seize opportunities and this would be a chance to have a memory of this phase of our life, for years to come. We are here, 24/7 so to speak, and our schedule is open.
In 1958, Jewel had Karen.
In 1981, Karen had Holly.
In 2012, Holly had Lux.
Jewel is my grandma and is battling severe Alzheimer’s. For the first time since she became sick nine years ago my grandpa has agreed it’s time to place her in a nursing home. Everyone has mixed emotions at the prospect.
Her oldest daughter Karen is my mom. She lost her husband of 32 years in 2010 to renal failure. Now two years later, she’s met a new love and they will wed in May.
I am Karen’s oldest daughter. My dad died when my second child was only a year old. We now have a new baby girl named Lux and she has his eyes.
With all the upcoming changes to our family, I would love to capture these three generations of women. They are my heroes.
Any date during the first three weeks of June work for us.
My mom is quite a little spitfire. My older sister and I are strong-minded, independent, and feisty. I know we are this way because of my petite 50 year old mother who doesn’t back down. Our family has had our fair share of trials as does everyone, but amidst our struggles, our mother has been our foundation. She has emphasized to us to work hard, to educate ourselves, and to not complain about our circumstances, no matter what. Let me tell you though, underneath her tough exterior, she is a real softy (but don’t tell her I said that!) I am proud of the women in my family and what they represent and emulate. Things aren’t perfect and we have our ups and downs, yelling, not talking the whole nine yards. However, when it comes down to it, they are family and they are my best friends and nothing will ever change that. There is just something so strong and comforting in a mother’s bond with her daughter, and the friendship two sisters can share. I cannot wait to pass these traits and our family stories down to my future daughters one day.
If you chose us it would be my mom, me and my sister (her daughter is under six, yet she is equally sassy). We could come the last couple of weeks June, since my mother and I both live out of state. Also, I promise we are strangers, but I have definitely seen and admired your work you did for my friend Jean’s wedding. You did a fabulous job!
I would love to be a part of this amazing project with the wonderful women in my family. There would be four generations…my daughter (6), me (34), my mother (55), my grandma (75).
I come from a heritage of strong women who have faced adversity and difficult challenges with faith and optimism. They have been strengthened through their trials without becoming bitter. I love and admire my mother and grandmother so much and look to them as examples. I hope that I will be that kind of person for my daughters (who are now 6 and 3).
Doing a project like this would be something we would literally cherish forever. Thank you for your consideration. We are available anytime before June 20th.
PS For the record, I thought I should tell you that I am your wife’s first cousin (but sadly I don’t see her enough). We share the same maiden name. I have met you once in person for a brief moment at a Mindy Gledhill benefit concert a few summers ago. I understand if that makes me ineligible.
It seems quite the daunting task to capture in writing the value of a relationship forged through twenty-nine years of sacrifice, love, forgiveness, trust, communication, empathy, elation, and experience. Perhaps my relationship with my mother can best be described by the lyrics to one of my favorite hymns, “Brightly Beams Our Father’s Mercy”:
“Brightly beams our Father’s mercy from his lighthouse ever more, but to us he gives the keeping of the lights along the shore.
Dark the night of sin has settled; loud the angry billows roar. Eager eyes are watching, longing, for the lights along the shore.
Trim your feeble lamp, my brother; some poor sailor, tempest tossed, trying now to make the harbor, in the darkness may be lost.
Let the lower lights be burning; send a gleam across the wave. Some poor fainting, struggling seaman you may rescue, you may save.”
Truly, my mother has served throughout my life as that lighthouse along the shore. She is the strongest and most unwavering beacon of hope and fortress of faith that I could ever have been blessed with. Perhaps the most poignant experience I could share with regards to our relationship took place during my high school years. Just before I turned 14, my parents received the call to serve as mission president and wife in Puerto Rico. I was devastated. Having just settled into our latest locale (this would be our 3rd move in a 5 year span), I was more than a little hesitant and apprehensive to move. The first year was particularly challenging for me personally as I attempted to figure out my faith, settle into a new and very foreign culture, and enter a very unique and somewhat ostracizing high school environment. During what could very easily have turned out to be the most lonely and isolating years of my young life, my mother became my confidant, counselor, companion, advisor, advocate, and best friend. Had we not experienced those 3 years far away from the comforts of home and family, I don’t think we would have been able to build the same close and devoted relationship we enjoy to this day. She continues to be my light along the shore which keeps me focussed on that which matters most and I would be honored to be able to capture in photograph the mutually loving and devoted bond that we share.
June 4th, 5th, or 6th would perhaps work best for us if we happen to be selected, but we could also be flexible.
Thank you
We are Midwest girls that have found our home sweet home in the mountains of Utah. Our Mom is turning sixty this year and what better gift could we give her than pictures of her with all her daughters! We can not offer ethnic diversity and we have lived fairly simple lives… but the compelling part of our story lies in how close we are. Through triumphs and heartache we have always stood by each other and we thank our lucky stars each and every day for the friendship and love we share!
We wish you the best of luck with this project!
Sincerely,
Tonya, Krysta, Missy and Brie
p.s. The latter part of June would be best as one of us will need to travel from Texas.
It is just my daughter (age 6) and myself. I don’t have a healthy relationship with my own mom and I lost my grandmother last year. I want to change the way mother/daughter relationships work in my own little family. I believe I am on the right path with my own daughter. I want her to know how I cherish her. How I want her to be a part of my life, always. So, one day, I can be the 5th generation of one of your beautiful photo shoots. I want to change the cycle of abuse and dysfunction. She is my world. I want her to see it. And always know how I feel about her.
Hello-
I just saw this posting and decided to comment just under the wire! What a fabulous idea. I am a mother of four in Salt Lake City, one daughter and three sons. I just had my 4th in November, a baby boy born 2 months early. My daughter (the oldest) age 9 was hoping for a girl so that she’s have a sister. I would love to have this opportunity to be photographed just she and I. We’ll have to stick together with all these boys in our family and this would be a great chance to feel closer to her. We are available any day during the first three weeks of June. Thank you for your consideration. Fingers crossed!
I would love to have my mom,sisters, and I included this year. We have no heartfelt story or diversity to add. We are just 4 women who love each other through it all. We could June 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5.
Thanks
My Grandmother is one of the most lovely creatures on this Earth. and she is incredibly talented. She plays the organ at the temple every week and Each Christmas I travel to Payson, Utah to hear her accompany her ward choir. Their rendition of the Hallelujah chorus is breath taking and Handel would be proud of Grandma rocking those octaves.
My Grandmother has taught piano lessons for over 50 years. She taught my mother, who is an elementary school music teacher. and My mother taught me. They don’t know it, but what they have handed down to me, has saved my soul. Music has been my saving grace and one of my most cherished blessings.
I would love a photo with these 2 beautiful woman. sitting together at the piano. or even just their hands.
weekends in June would work for us.
I am so sad I missed the dead line for this. I am the baby of nine children six girls and three boys. Our father passed away from tragic brain surgery and my mother has been a widow for the past 10 years she is an amazing women and has raised us all to be very good people. There are four generations
my mother 1944
my oldest sister 1965
my oldest niece 1985
my great niece 2006
this would be a neat experience maybe next year!!!
Hi Justin!
I know we missed the deadline, but it was so fun to write this and think about our family dynamic that I wanted to send a hail Mary…just in case!
We would LURVE the opportunity to participate in this project! Here’s the 411:
Number of Generations:
4
Number of Women:
6
Who’s Who:
Generation 1: Judy – Mother/Grandmother/Great-Grandmother
Generation 2: Pam – Daughter/Mother/GiGi (she’s not really the “grandma” type so we’ve created a new GiGi category for her)
Generation 3: Natalie/Christina/Janaan – Daughters/Granddaughters/Mothers
Generation 4: Eliza – Daughter/Granddaughter/Great-Granddaughter (E is 7. We have another 4th Generation girl that is 3…but…well, she’s probably the reason why you’ve put the lower limit at 6. Ha!)
We hail from:
Phoenix and Salt Lake City
We’re available:
Any day in June EXCEPT the 15th and 16th
Choose us because:
We’re loud.
We’re fun.
We love each other, so much that we cry when we have to say goodbye.
We learn every day and try harder to accept who we are every day.
We know how to rally when anything bad happens.
The older we get, the happier we are. (Really.)
We take care of each other, every day.
We are a family.
I love this idea! I’m too late for the deadline but I look forward to this photography event next year!
I can get 5 generations I think! I live in San Diego with my 6 year old daughter, my mother lives in Utah. When my mother joined the LDS church as a teenager, her family disowned her and have since all died, but she was adopted basically into my dad’s family and she calls her mother-in-law, my grandmother, “mom”. My grandmother also lives in Utah. My grandfather’s mother died young of aggressive cancer, and before she died, she told my great grandfather to go out to California after she died and marry her cousin, so he did! So my grandfather’s stepmom is still alive and kicking in Utah. She’s the only great grandmother on that side most of us have ever known, since my great grandmother died so young, and she is truly the matriarch and keeps track of everyone. She lives with my grandpa and grandma. So, if you account for certain adoptions, we are five generations of women. I know I’m past the deadline, but I thought I’d throw it out there anyway, since you said you were hoping …
Justin…missed the deadline (just read about the project on Twitter) BUT if you are looking for some special diversity, please consider my daughter and me. She is my special gift…we adopted her in China in 1996 at the age of 10 months, and she will turn 17 in August. She has never, once, asked me who her “real” mother is, even though she has always known that she was adopted. As we both prepare ourselves mentally and emotionally for her departure to college in a year and a half (!), this is a very special time for us, and I would love to see it immortalized. Again, I know I missed the deadline, but I had to try…
P.S. We would make ourselves available whenever it was convenient after her school year ends June 15.
I must be considered for this I know that I am late but just happened upon it. My daughter and I live alone together since my divorce and she is my world. It says you are looking for ethnic well my daughter is half black and I am white as well as my mother. We are from Huntington Beach, California that alone makes us super cool!! WE are willing to fly there whatever day is open.
Nicole
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