90018_43688_First_Communion
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1940s
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Group of girls leaving a San Francisco church after receiving their first communion. The girls wear white outfits, white shoes, and white veils. Adults greet the girls as they move toward the camera.
One girls poses for the camera outside the church, seizing the moment to shine as a star. Other churchgoers walk past her, eager to get home.
Later, the same girl poses outside a San Francisco home. She reads from a small book as she turns in circles, looking at the camera with a gaze of seemingly boundless innocence.