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At first I scanned all of your pictures, but this one ultimately pulled me in. Like the others have said, it is perhaps because it is such a gripping image and it invokes my own feelings of not wanting to be abandoned. It is a common human emotion, shared probably more intensely by those with disabilities (or different abilities). In my own experience as a parent of a child with autism and in my volunteer music therapy work with those with Alzheimer's and dementia I can see this image of an infant as very applicable. Both groups of people find it difficult if not impossible to readily communicate with the world and in many ways might feel like a helpless baby left for dead. For me, the message is that the rest of us need to be their voices and their advocates and promote the fact that all people and all life is valuable and must be respected and protected.