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Exquisite Roger

While Roger Hicks's column is always an outstanding read, his ‘Unidentified girl' (Final Analysis in AP 24 March) was brilliant. His analysis of the photograph is as considered as we have come to expect. And his move to explain the girl's emotions and state of mind, the past that brought her to this point and the future that lay ahead for her are as sensitive, perceptive and moving as anything he has written. His eloquence brings an ordinary photograph to life and makes it breathe.

His query about our own heirlooms and poignant reminder that ‘we cannot keep everything from the past' is, in many ways, a bombshell. It is ironic