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Whitney Flashback

9/03/2015, photo by Ariana

When Whitney first started working with our family, Tony would scream, cry, and hide for most of the two hours each day she was coming in. This lasted for nearly a month. Gradually, he began to respond to her patient and gentle way of working with him. This picture is from the early fall of 2015, and I know…it’s a blurry as can be in spots and part of Whitney’s head got left out of the view. Tony was moving fast and my cell phone at the time had a crummy camera, but what I see when I look at this moment is our little man finally beginning to accept Whitney into his life and that’s why I tried to capture the moment, however imperfectly. How rare it was- so, so very rare- back then for him to let anyone touch him other than Andy, Hannah, or I. Thank you, Whitney, for everything.