Memory Day: Snapshots

This picture was taken nine years ago today, on June 15, 2007.

Rebecca was working at the non-profit Books for America bookstore in Dupont Circle at the time, and I surprised her by showing up after work (in the pre-Silver Line days). We went to Jazz in the Garden with Marc, Baylis, Andy, Adnrea, Jessika, and forgotten others, and used two pitchers of overpriced sangria to dullen the pain of listening to avant-gard soprano saxophone duets.

Afterwards, our group of 10 ended up at a hole in the wall restaurant in Chinatown called (creatively) Chinatown Express where I ate shrimp lo mein and had this picture taken. This was in the phase where I heavily edited every photo in Photoshop with a series of custom filters. Nowadays, I allow my natural beauty to be its own testament.