the serious side of mr. brown

When I moved away from our mutual home town in 2005 I was left with an image of a young boy, a pastor's kid, following his dad around the church campus, tolerating the pestering of his two younger sisters. 

His mom and I had scheduled these pictures long ago in late summer/early fall and because of life stuff, we just had not been able to connect. So when we finally met up on Saturday, I stepped out of my car and was met with this football-carrying, ukulele-playing, slipper-wearing, high school senior.

Where did time go? Who was this man?

I'm about to gush here (and I feel free to do so because, geez, I am old enough to be his mom) because I feel like you all are thinking it too so I might as well say it...

I think I found the next Calvin Klein model. 

Seriously. Don't mean to embarrass you Mr. Brown but that black pea-coat was a great wardrobe choice if I do say so myself.

I thought I would save the ukulele/slipper pictures for another post because I couldn't stand to take away from this little black and white collection of what I am dubbing, "The Serious Side of Mr. Brown".

And, Mr. Brown,  I know you are thinking about majoring in International Relations but you might want to consider taking a side job and contacting Mr. Klein.

Just throwing that out there. 

If any of you want to chime in and agree with me, feel free to do so.

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(Special note for Senior Mr. Brown: While editing these pictures I felt like I should be listening to some vintage U2. Second picture up from the bottom....Larry Mullen Jr. in the early days. Yes?)