Back in the good old days—say, two years ago, when the last of my children suffered the ordeal (折磨)—a high-school student applying to college could procrastinate all the way to New Year's Day of their senior year, assuming they could withstand the parental pestering (煩擾).
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Photography was once an expensive, laborious ordeal reserved for life's greatest milestones.