It’s common on social media to see some gorgeous image from the past with people sighing over it saying how much happier life was back then.
A photo like this one, for instance, of a lady in a flowering meadow. The photo was taken in the 1950s.
The lady is smiling at the camera. And she’s pretty, and there are flowers all around her. Of course she’s happy, right?
We don’t know.
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