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This is a photo I took when my cousins and I were getting ready for a party they were throwing. Even though it was a fairly small and informal gathering, we spent the better part of a weekend cooking up a storm and decorating their house with candles and twinkly lights, as shown in this photo—a fairly ordinary moment that somehow became almost magical.

By Charlotte Z., 19, Boston