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        Frans Hofmeester
    
By Collin GosselJun 19, 2018
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Collin Gossel is a writer and comedian living in Brooklyn, New York, but there are nights when he looks up at the stars and wistfully thinks to himself “there’s got to be more out there…” You can catch Collin improvising new musicals every Tuesday night at the Magnet Theater’s Musical Megawatt, or follow his unfiltered thoughts on Twitter and Instagram @CollinGossel.
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Children grow up in the blink of an eye. Every parent wishes at some point that they could look back on their child's infancy and hold onto it for just one more moment. Fortunately, Dutch filmmaker Frans Hofmeester had the foresight to plan for that. Beginning the week she was born in 1999, Hofmeester began taking short clips of his daughter and piecing them together into an unbelievable time-lapse journey through her childhood.
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                And this is his daughter, pictured in her first year.
            
            
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                To prompt her, Hofmeester would ask Lotte about her week, or about what she'd been learning in school.
            
            
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                The difference a couple months can make is shocking.
            
            
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                When you're a child, every haircut and growth spurt makes a huge difference.
            
            
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                In under 6 minutes, Lotte grows from an infant into a young adult.
            
            
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Here's the whole video!


Hofmeester made a similar video feautring his son, Vince!


YouTube viewers were in awe of the video!


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Thanks to their father's dedication, these children will be able to watch themselves grow up in a way very few ever will.
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The video also made some reflect on their own lives in a nostalgic way.
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As a child grows up, parents have to be careful not to blink lest they miss something important. Perhaps, watching these videos, the rest of us can finally understand the feeling.
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