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Mine are the hands of your best friend, filled with love for you. Mine are the hands that will be holding yours on our wedding day, when we promise to love each other today, tomorrow and forever. Mine are the hands that will always be there to lend you strength and comfort when you need it. Mine are the hands that, even when wrinkled and aged, will still be reaching for yours, offering undiminished tenderness with their touch. These are my hands, and yours.

The easiest way I can think of to explain how to restore a vintage camera is to restore one, photographing each step in the restoration process. To that end, I went on eBay and bought a Welta Perle that was in pretty bad shape, but that didn't look like it would be hopeless. Here are a few of the "before" photos, detailing the damage: Okay, now that I have a fairly good idea what is wrong with it, I can start making repairs. It will be a beautiful and fully functioning camera when I am done. First, I am going to clean the glass (lenses and viewfinder). To do this, I am going to use distilled water (to remove general crud), a 50/50 mix of ammonia and hydrogen peroxide (to kill and remove fungus), and naphtha (lighter fluid) to remove grease and oil. I'll apply each solvent, in turn, with cotton swabs and remove it with them too. I'll put t on with a wet end and then mop it up with the dry end. I'll twist each swab slowly, so it lifts dirt away from the glass instead of rubbing

We were talking and we were happy. Then she heard her dog making weird noises. He was staggering around and fell down. She went to check on him. He started bleeding from every orfice. Someone had poisoned him with rat poison (warfarin, which causes massive internal bleeding). His insides pretty much liquified. He was in great pain and must have been like that for some time before she found him. He died quickly after that, with my wife petting him. It takes a very special kind of asshole to do that to a dog.