More than Just a Bad Photo Last summer as I readied for my move to China, I felt well prepared. I packed the right clothes, plunked in a first aid kit, and made photocopies of all of my documents. There was one aspect of preparation, however, that I wasn't sure I should follow through with - replacing my passport. Everyone complains that their passport pictures are horrible, that their faces look funny or they were having a bad hair day. But there are no words to describe the abomination that adorns the front flap of my passport. When I tell people I have a bad passport photo, they usually say, "Aww, I'm sure it's not that bad." That is, until they see the actual picture, at which point their faces go blank and they usually
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