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Seems like maybe Photo Stream photos > 30 days old are gone?

Yeah I can understand that they're removed from the cloud, but the local copies should still be there.

I already pruned my old photo stream of hundreds of junk photos, now I'll get to do it all over again when I upgrade my wife's iPhone to iOS8 and enable iCloud photos.
 
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