Bury Me in the Golden Light of a 1970s Photograph

A beautiful life, full of regret .

Photo from the author, Adeline Dimond

I blame the perfume commercials of the 1980s. Images of sports cars winding up dark roads with a couple in love, on their way to an old stone restaurant, where candles illuminated the moss. Or maybe I imagined the commercials, but the image still slides into my thoughts, like an old Kodak slide carousel that starts up…