When you were just born, your parents altered your body in one way or another, to make your body "appropriate" for acceptance into their cultural group. If they failed to do that, people could have regarded them as unfit parents!
Parents have marked and adorned this baby for a photograph to present the newest member of their family to their world (who would probably make approving social noises).
What things had your parents done to alter your body by the time you were one year old? What things were done to suit their religion? What things were done to suit their social class? What things were done to announce your gender to other people (presumably, that was covered most of the time)?
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