Sweet Memories|我没忘记妳

Sweet Memories

by Olivia Wycech

How one man and his daughter created happy memories from sad ones.

　　This isn't a story about grief, loss, and hurt. Instead, this is a story about love. It began in Cincinnati in 2009 when Ben Nunery married the love of his life, Ali. They bought a house together and, before moving in, Ali's sister took their wedding photos within the bare walls of the house. The couple wanted their wedding photos to be taken in the house that was to be their future. A year later, Ali gave birth to a daughter, Olivia. A year after that, tragically, Ali passed away from a rare form of lung cancer.

　　Obviously, grief and hard times followed. Two years later, Nunery and his daughter were finally ready to move out of the house that they had shared with Ali. Nunery was worried about the memories his daughter would take with her from the house. Instead of dwelling on the past sadness, he found a way to make happy memories so that his daughter could remember both her mother and the house.

　　Nunery asked his sister-in-law to help him recreate the wedding photos with his three-year-old daughter in place of his wife. Nunery and his daughter posed in the same manner and in the same places throughout the empty house after all their things were moved. The beautiful new picture set represented the time they spent in the house, the good times as well as the painful times. Even with all that had happened, Nunery still felt he was the luckiest man in the world. Death does not mean that we need to forget our loved ones, but instead find ways to keep our memories of them alive.

我没忘记妳

看看一个男人和他女儿如何从悲伤的记忆中创造幸福的回忆。

　　这不是一个关于悲伤、失去与伤痛的故事。这反倒是一个关于爱的故事。故事开始于 2009 年的辛辛那提市，当时班‧努那瑞娶了他生命中的挚爱 ―― 艾莉。他们共同买了一栋房子，而在入住之前，艾莉的姐姐就在墙上什么装饰都没有的屋内帮他们拍摄婚纱照。这对夫妻希望自己的婚纱照能够在他们未来的家中拍摄。一年后，艾莉生下了一个女儿，名叫奥利维亚。不幸的是，就在生下奥利维亚的一年之后，艾莉罹患了一种罕见的肺癌而过世了。

　　显然，悲伤与难熬的日子接踵而至。两年后，努那瑞和他的女儿终于准备要搬离这间他们曾经与艾莉共同生活的房子。努那瑞担心他的女儿会把这间房子的回忆一并带走。与其总是回想着过去的伤痛，他找到了一种能够制造出美好回忆的方法，藉此他的女儿便能怀念她的妈妈和这栋房子了。

　　努那瑞请他的大姨子帮他重新拍摄由他的三岁女儿来代替妻子的婚纱照。努那瑞和他的女儿在所有东西搬走之后，在整个空荡荡的房子里，在同样的地方摆出同样的姿势。这一组美丽的照片代表了他们在这栋房子里所度过的时光，有喜有悲。尽管这一切不幸已发生，努那瑞仍觉得自己是世界上最幸运的人。死亡并非意味着我们必须遗忘我们所爱的人，而是必须找到方法让我们对他们的回忆延续下去。