There was no attempt at making this a representative sample, or of calating everything in a neat kind of excel sprig sheet. But even so, his letters offer something that just statistics alone couldn't. I think i brought it in a little bit more personal. Dorothy felt freer to ask about intimate matters. One of her first directives was about the meaning of the word love. And she went on to probe the panel about aging menstuation, women and men, pleasure and bereavement. The er the personal and political, for me, were interwoven on people understood themselves.