question was how to make those days alive for them in a manner that was direct, not preachy, not pat ronnizing and not burdensome as text. while photographs were chosen that documented and dramatized the precursors to the decision, the decision and the little one's aftermath, but even the most powerful images could become merely another lesson or another collection, if they were presented with captions that were limited to the date, time, who, when and where. what really attracted me to the project was the possibility of entering imaginatively into the minds of the people in the photos, what they might be thinking or feeling, or could have thought or felt in language that represented the language of the people in the photographs that was also the readers. i wanted to make the experience as intimate as possible. and my skills are honed in narrative, fiction and dialogue. so, i thought that i would bring those into play rather than sort of an essay-type rendering of what was going on. in doing so, in trying to invent what this person in a photograph might have been thinking to himself or saying