~ finding the right voice ~
She was four city blocks long, with the latest, most ingenious safety devices; a French "side-walk cafe," private promenade decks—but only twenty lifeboats for the 2,207 passengers on board. Gliding through a calm sea, disdainful of all obstacles, the TITANIC brushed an iceberg. Two hours and forty minutes later she upended and sank. Only 705 survivors were picked up from her half-filled boats ...