A girl who was never meant to survive
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Re: A girl who was never meant to survive
#2On mobile as you scroll through it cycles through some large photos, breaking the flow of the text. I had to stop trying to read it.
Re: A girl who was never meant to survive
#3On mobile as you scroll through it cycles through some large photos, breaking the flow of the text. I had to stop trying to read it.
Give this a go: https://outline.com/e3h5H2
Re: A girl who was never meant to survive
#4How can ever parents do something like this. I can't imagine how did she survived, not just physically but emotionally.
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#5I'm always impressed how people manage to go to "why not me though?" after thinking about "why me?". It's a sign of a strong and life-aware person. We usually gives us reasons why we shouldn't do something and then there's no guilt not to think about why we should do it. It's sad because there could be so many more stories like this one if more of us had will to go to positive side first or at least after thinking about the negative side.
Re: A girl who was never meant to survive
#6How can ever parents do something like this. I can't imagine how did she survived, not just physically but emotionally.
Kids can be surprisingly durable in pretty much every way imaginable.
Edit: We're talking about one bad event early in childhood here, not spending an entire childhood with abusive parents.
Re: A girl who was never meant to survive
#7On mobile as you scroll through it cycles through some large photos, breaking the flow of the text. I had to stop trying to read it.
Even on desktop I find this style of presentation distracting. It looks cool, I get it, but it doesn't feel conducive to story telling to break up the text with a screen filling image every N paragraphs.
Re: A girl who was never meant to survive
#8On mobile as you scroll through it cycles through some large photos, breaking the flow of the text. I had to stop trying to read it.
Even on desktop I find this style of presentation distracting. It looks cool, I get it, but it doesn't feel conducive to story telling to break up the text with a screen filling image every N paragraphs.
It does some curious things though. It makes reading online an interactive thing - you have to 'flip pages' quite deliberately and quite often. That would have a significant effect on engagement I would think. Perhaps (older?) folks like us are put off; but I can imagine a crowd that would be more likely to finish the article, once they got going/hooked?
Re: A girl who was never meant to survive
#9On mobile as you scroll through it cycles through some large photos, breaking the flow of the text. I had to stop trying to read it.
On desktop the text feels like a supplement to the pictures more than the main part of the content.
As I looked at the pictures, scanning the text for callouts and deeper information, I found myself becoming very emotional.
The linked article tells a very powerful story through images, a story that touches upon love, adoption, middle America ("the heartland"), family, and race.
Re: A girl who was never meant to survive
#10How can ever parents do something like this. I can't imagine how did she survived, not just physically but emotionally.
Kids can be surprisingly durable in pretty much every way imaginable. Edit: We're talking about one bad event early in childhood here, not spending an entire childhood with abusive parents.
Yes but then you meet them as adults and they exhibit (and unsuccessfully try to hide) tons of mental issues due to messed up childhood. Usually revolves around trusting others in relationships and this trickles down to many aspects of their lives