"Tempo" of life

<<She looked at the old picture that hung in the room. A young Amalia walked hand in hand with her father, both smiling, and in front of them a girl of no more than three years with a ball in her hands, she played with two children a little more greater. They all smiled.

She approached the painting, who was that little girl? How had that girl become this old lady who saw herself on the glass that protected the photograph?>>