The top three-quarters of the full-page newspaper ad shows a young girl, perhaps ten or eleven years old. She wears a white dress, with a bow in back, white tights, and white shoes. She is looking over her shoulder, preternaturally gazing at us, her brown curls cascading down her back, an aqua-colored bow in her hair. Behind her are several white tree trunks, like aspen or birch, fading into a watery-blue mist. At the front of the photo’s plane is a seemingly very large, white child’s sled, its pull-rope in the girl’s hands. read more »