But believe me, dear reader, when I say I was now twice as scared to get this project underway. When Jerry Beilinson, who oversees CR’s technology coverage, offered up boxes of his family’s slides from the 1960s and ’70s, I got even more motivated. For many years I was unsure of how to deal with the items-overwhelmed, really, by the sheer volume of material-and, more to the point, hesitant to hand over my irreplaceable photos and videos to some unknown entity. It wasn’t until I decided to test photo scanning services for Consumer Reports that I found the energy to complete the project. I wanted to digitize the images not only to preserve them but also to share them with friends and family, particularly my teenage daughter, so she could one day look back on them and realize her parents were once young, too. In time, I found myself worrying about what would be lost in the event of a house fire or a hurricane. I stowed it in the attic, where it was soon joined by boxes of photos and videotapes given to my husband by his parents, plus the prints and negatives we amassed on our own in the days before digital cameras and smartphones were a thing. The most precious item I received was a box full of photos documenting me and my siblings as we grew up. Before my parents moved from New York to Arizona in 2006, they left me with many of their belongings-a dinnerware set, an upright piano, a giant fig tree.
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