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Every summer on our family vacation my mother would say “One, two, three, cheese” and snap a photograph. My siblings and I always hated being in the pictures and wondered why my mother still made us be in the picture. So why did my mother insist on making us be in the picture? She wanted us to be able to recall every place we have traveled to and capture the memory. The fact we take photographs is a sign we want to preserve our memories. Memories with family and friends can be remembered by taking photographs. Photographs aren't just for the sake of having but they also have great personal meaning and are central to how we may view our own lives. Naturally a human’s memory does not have the ability to recall all events from the past. As a result photos are symbols we use to captur