What were the reactions? I was most worried about Boyd. I just was acutely aware, through the whole process, of the very, very real risk of retraumatizing people. Anyway, Boyd, he emailed me. He read it in a night. Boyd is not the most forthcoming with his emotions. So I sort of expected the most I would get was one line like, “You did all right, kid.” He basically said that, but that kept following up on his email. I told him, “I’m sure you have questions. You can ask anything.” And he, over the week, would just send me like, “Which friend was this? Who said this? Do you have an answer to this?” I had become an archive of information about his sister that he didn’t have access to.
How do you make sure not to sensationalize someone who’s the heart of a very sad story? I think by focusing on who she was and what her dreams were. It’s not the facts of her death and the gruesome details of the tragedy that really interested me. It was the quotes that she would make, the letters that she wrote from the archeological dig in Iran, where she’s like, “I wouldn’t mind getting married, but I also wouldn’t mind having a pizza when I got home.” It’s allowing the time and the space and the luck to have access to these documents to really get to know somebody as a friend, not just as somebody who was killed.
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