the images began with the birth of dolly and included the night of my birth , the birth of shannon smith-1 , my winter wonderland marriage to evelyn-1 in second grade , the assassination of my mother by gabrielle burns , the self-immolation of jason rendell , the premiere of farewell dolly , the suicide of lily-2 in central park , the birth of cain , lily-3 and evelyn-2 , the suicide of cooper jones-2 , and the bombings of my childhood church and the genetics and cloning board .