Dear Miss Manners: In the era of selfies, I’m as guilty as anyone of holding my phone out and snapping a photo of my spouse and me in front of some interesting feature. Those photos stay on my phone, or maybe on a social media account, but no further.

Conversely, my grandparents, of blessed memory, who never even heard the word “selfie,” had 8x10 studio photographs of themselves framed and hanging on the walls in their respective living rooms. I also inherited large-format portrait photos of two pairs of great-grandparents, both of which are in fairly elaborate frames. They now hang in my living room.

Though it was obviously once common, I don’t know anyone who has framed portraits of themselves in their homes now. Advertisement

An oil portrait of my spouse and me isn’t in our budget,

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