This First Person column is the experience of Kathy Jourdain, who lives in Bedford, N.S. For more information about CBC's First Person stories, please see the FAQ.

As a child, I used to love looking at our family photos. They sat in a drawer under the large TV console in the family room. Among them was a small white album with a red spine. Inside were 10 square black and white photos of me when I was a toddler in the 1960s — in a bathtub or happily posing in a restaurant booth among others.  

At …