By Mario Prietto
Mario Prietto and his family partici-
pated in the original "Shades of L.A." project with the Los Angeles Public Library. He was born and raised in Los Angeles.

In science class, students are taught that hard physical matter is made up of rapidly moving, combining and bonding particles at an atomic level. We're taught about the expanding universe, carbon-dating, the ozone layer, entropy, and that the nature of our reality is change. Blah blah blah -- it's all boring terms to memorize for tests and fodder for trippy rock lyrics until we grow up and re-visit the neglected photo albums our elders have kept for us.

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