This card started very imagery first. Sometimes I see an image that makes me think "oooh, I should try that." When I read an article... or blogpost... or something about someone complaining about the style of ad depicting something breaking through the surface of the advertisement I thought "really? I want to try that." I mean, look at this bird, refusing to be held back.
So I started with Mister McSeriousFace. He looks like he is repressing some things. But what is he holding back?
People in a fire?
People in front of a door?
A nurse in front of the needy?
Boom! Nurse wins. The ad for the Staunton Military Academy has been floating around in my collage supplies for a while. I feel like I remember my father taking about Staunton, or a word that sounds like Staunton. I dunno, but it had that air of familiarity that I cut it out, assuming I would eventually find a use for it on a card for my parents. This isn't a card for my parents, but the serious guy in the Staunton ad feels like a good repetition of Mister McSeriousFace. "Or do without" was in my text folder, so I put it down without gluing it while I searched for a preceding companion.
A Life Magazine article about courtship provided me "why you should string your sweetheart along," or something close enough to it that I was able to pull "string your sweetheart along" from it. Huzzah! Implied narrative.
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