I lost my mom last December. And my dad has now entered memory care.
While my sister was cleaning out their attic, she found a box of what she thought were dad's old medical certificates in the very back of the attic. She was so tired of cleaning out the attic, she almost left it there. Thank God she did not.
First she found large framed baptismal certificates for our grandparents, and our grandparents' marriage certificates-- the large, fancy, ornate ones created by the German Evangelische church they attended. Then underneath those framed items at the bottom of the box, she found a set of wedding photos THAT NONE OF US HAD EVER SEEN. (Mom and Dad were married in 1946.) Including this one: