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"Before there was color photography" by Tiel Aisha Ansari Before there was color photography it was sepia sorrow and black-and-white laughs that filled up our grayscale memory with old-fashioned love caught in old photographs. We kissed under rainbows in monochrome, the girls in white dresses, the boys in black ties, recorded both travel and coming home in silver emulsions unsullied by dyes. We flatter ourselves on development of accurate, full-color vision that sets our lives down in vivid emotion palettes. We claim that it's truer to represent the brilliance of love with a gaudy bouquet- but love was as strong back when roses were gray. About the Author 
Tiel Aisha Ansari is a Sufi, martial artist, and computer programmer living in the Pacific Northwest. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in several print and online venues including Islamica Magazine, Mezzo Cammin, and The Lyric, and she is the author of the poetry collection Knocking from Inside, published by Ecstatic Exchange. You can visit her online at knockingfrominside.blogspot.com.
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