My soul-mate and partner in life (Evelia) is a 1st generation U.S. Citizen . Her parents were immigrants from Mexico City, and after getting their bearings here in the U.S. settled down in East Chicago, where her Dad owned a barber shop, while her Mom ran a baby clothing store above him on West Chicago Avenue.

Her and her brothers were born in 'Da Region...

But a lot of her extended family lived (and still live) in and around Mexico City, so visits back there while Evelia was growing up was thing. This image of Her, Her Brother, and Her Uncle was taken atop the Torre Latinoamericana building in the historic district:

I ran across this black and white print while going through some of Evelia’s Mom’s photos some time back. The print was understandably faded and at the time I didn’t have a lot of hope that it could be cleaned up. But the current state of creative content software has advanced to a sometimes shocking state over the last few years and, after scanning into a digital format with an Epson V600, followed by some manual tweaking in Topaz Photo AI, the results were impressive.

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