My dad has told me stories about these aunts and uncles and cousins my entire life, but I’ve never seen them. Here, their faces are hidden by balloons at my tia’s 89th birthday party in Peru. In the following pictures of the album (yup, on facebook), those faces that I’ve only been able to imagine are revealed, smiling, painted, kissing, winking. and I mean, what a party!! Tia, 89 years old, and still dancin’ til the break of dawn.