Even though, I wasn't adopted, my skin color is a different shade from all the people in my family that raised me. So, from a young age, I've always been acutely aware of how we're able to move through the world differently as a result of how people see us. At the time that I wrote the play, my partner and I were seriously discussing adopting a child, and so I was spending a lot of time considering what that might look like. I also wrote and cast the first reading of this play while I was a graduate student at Ohio University. I wrote the parts of Mateo and Diane for very specific student actors there. All of those factors led to the relationship that's now intregal to the script.