This is for you,” I said to Benno the next morning, handing him a box. Benno was a big talker. Over the last few days, I’d learned a great deal about him and his mother, more than I’d ever learned from Lux. I barely asked any questions and he expounded. He told me all about Newport, his grandmother Miriam and his grandfather George. His year at St. Paul’s, and Lapis Lake, where he and George went every summer. He examined my gift. “Eastman Kodak Brownie Camera. Is that supposed to be a brownie?” He pointed to the illustration of a little man with a huge stomach and froglike face. “Creepy. Are you sure you want to give this to me? It looks brand-new.” The camera was basically brand-new. I’d bought it in January of 1906. “Have you ever used a camera?” I asked. “Once or twice. I haven’t done much photography.” “I can see you taking photographs all the time in your mind. You look, you focus, and you snap. You take a mental image. I think it’s the way you make sense of things.”
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