I am related to both of these women

and that makes me very happy.  And?  They are just about the only two women I know who are shorter than I am.  Heh.

On the left is my dad's mother, and on the right is my dad's father's sister.  I think that's her late husband in the chair, there, and I think this photo was taken on the 4th of July in 1948 or so, on her birthday.  I need to get this scan professionally photoshopped and then printed, framed, and hung up on the wall to remind me that everything is okay, even when it's not.