So who doesn’t love having their picture taken?
Getting your “official” portrait taken usually starts when you’re one day old, courtesy of the hospital photographer.
This is followed by thirteen years of annual school pictures. Although some grade schools now have “picture day” three times per year.
If you played sports or were involved in any other organized activity when you were young then you had probably many more official pictures.
When you add graduation and prom pictures, driver’s licence photos, passport pictures and maybe even a few police mug shots :-) then you’ve had a lot of official portraits made. And many of those probably had fake, forced smiles.
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