In every photo of me until I was 6, my face is covered in scratches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My parents always said it was because printers were low quality back then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Today, I was visiting my aunt and found a photo album of a family gathering from 1992.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I was horrified when I discovered my face scratched out again<\/em>\u2014but the photos were clearly originals. The colors hadn\u2019t faded, and the texture felt like something out of a professional studio. It wasn\u2019t a printer problem. Someone had intentionally<\/em> taken something sharp to my face\u2014on every single photo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And then I noticed something else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On the back of one of the pictures, in faded blue ink, was a name I\u2019d never heard before: \u201cMina.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In every photo of me until I was 6, my face is covered in scratches. My parents always said it was because printers were low quality back… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1904,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nykmedia.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nykmedia.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nykmedia.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nykmedia.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nykmedia.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nykmedia.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4085,"href":"https:\/\/nykmedia.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4084\/revisions\/4085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nykmedia.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nykmedia.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nykmedia.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nykmedia.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}