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futurejournalismproject: Final Embrace Every time I look back to this photo, I feel uncomfortable — it haunts me. It’s as if they are saying to me, we are not a number — not only cheap labor and cheap lives. We are human beings like you. Our life is precious like yours, and our dreams are precious too. — Taslima Akhter. Image: Two victims of a garment factory building collapse in Savar, Bangladesh by Taslima Akhter via Time Lightbox. Select to embiggen. We identify so easily with fictional characters in movies, even if they’re not like us, and we care about them so much that we even feel like they’re real. It’s the real ones we have trouble remembering are real. View Larger

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Final Embrace

Every time I look back to this photo, I feel uncomfortable — it haunts me. It’s as if they are saying to me, we are not a number — not only cheap labor and cheap lives. We are human beings like you. Our life is precious like yours, and our dreams are precious too. — Taslima Akhter.

Image: Two victims of a garment factory building collapse in Savar, Bangladesh by Taslima Akhter via Time Lightbox. Select to embiggen.

We identify so easily with fictional characters in movies, even if they’re not like us, and we care about them so much that we even feel like they’re real.

It’s the real ones we have trouble remembering are real.

# bangladesh photo

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