The first thing to appear on the big screen, to everyone's surprise, was...
a Bay photo of Joyce Monroe dressed in red.
After that, a series of photos appeared, arranged chronologically. Before the age of ten, she was almost always in a princess dress. The photos that followed were from her time in the countryside.
There was a photo of her in a tank top and little skirt, sitting by an old well and eating watermelon under the eaves;
another of her hugging a big orange cat, beaming;
one with her hair cut short, running wild with a group of countryside children in a golden wheat field;
another of her as a little girl, feeding silkworms to spin silk, and crying in fright the first time she touched a silkworm;
There was even a photo of her crying, with red-rimmed eyes and scraped hands, from learning Embroidery...
