There's no date on this picture but I'm guessing it was taken somewhere around 1960 ish? I have a couple of others where I'm a year and probably two years older playing with the same baby. Most amazing to me is at now that I'm 63 years old, although tattered, mostly hairless and with a couple of missing fingers, I still have this dolly! None of the Barbies I got when I was older survived although I know when I was in high school, I still had a few tucked away in a storage box somewhere.
I have a few first and second grade school photos preserved too only to show how miserable and unhappy I was which are almost hard for me to look at but most of the pictures after that from my childhood until I was 18 no longer exist.
Even though I was "passing" at 16 and started HRT at 17, I could not complete social transition until I got out of high school in 1973. My mom and I sat down one day shortly after that and went through boxes of all of her photos and we sorted out all my "boy" pictures and stuffed them into big manila envelopes. When she died about 7 years later, my step-dad gave me all her albums and boxes of photographs but the manila envelopes were no where to be seen.
I have a few pictures up until I was 8 or maybe 9 but none after that until I was 18 and living fully as a girl. I hated them then but now I would love to have some pictures of my transition years.
