Uncle Dusting and Aunt Cinders Visit

If you are appropriately modest about your own child, read no further--or prepare the air-sickness bag.

I told a student recently that I have discovered that everything about parenting is a trade-off: having a gorgeous little girl means you are privileged to look at Beauty all day, but in return you must be cast in her shade in every photograph. Cindy and Dustin, behold the photographic "Lola Effect." No, your vacation photos and your own eyes have not deceived you: you are in reality as beautiful as Beau Brummell. But you must pose next to Lola and take your lickin'. Yours gleefully, The Victim of a Hundred Family Portraits (K)