Today is My Daughter’s Should-Be 22nd Birthday

I want to feed Ana’s 15-year-old face into the magical AI image generator and demand that it show me what she would look like now.

Jacqueline Dooley
6 min readMay 16, 2023

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Painting of Ana by Chloe Mosbacher

Yesterday I turned to my husband and asked if he thought there was an AI tool that could age someone in a photograph. He’d started answering before thinking about why a…

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Jacqueline Dooley

Essayist, content writer, bereaved parent. Bylines: Human Parts, GEN, Marker, OneZero, Washington Post, Al Jazeera, Pulse, HuffPost, Longreads, Modern Loss