The original of this photo is waaay big so I had to scale it down majorly. I took this picture a little less than a year ago during the Hillel service trip to New Orleans last spring break. He was sitting outside the Café du Monde with his prim tailored suit and matching hat, reading the newspaper. His wrists are bone-thin, and I think it's somewhat spectacular the way you can see the tendons in his right hand (the human body: it works!). He looks like his name could be Lawrence or Horace (and he wouldn't go by a nickname), maybe a retired professor of something who now spends each Sunday at the café having a cup of coffee and a beignet. He might also be a librarian. In my imagination he has no children but is a wonderful uncle and great-uncle to his siblings' kids.
By the way, I plan on getting a farther-zooming camera lens soon, so there will be more recent photos in the near future :)
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