[Times photo: Toni L. Sandys] SINGLE DAD: Jalia Daniels, then 18 months, caresses the face of her father, Marvin, as he puts her to sleep with a bottle in June. “My children are my No. 1 priority,” says Daniels, a single father whose girlfriend left him to raise their two girls. Being a father comes first

[Times photo: Jamie Francis] GHOSTS OF CAMBODIA: Song Sinath, then 7, walks along a well-worn path near Angkor Wat, the most sacred monument in Cambodia and the former capital of the ancient Khmer kingdom. The decorated horse waits for a customer; its owner is willing to furnish a ride for a few cents. Return to the killing fields

[Times photo: Mike Pease] A REFUGE THREATENED: Brage Sassin, then 6, cries in the back yard of his Tampa Palms home, near the treehouse he retreats to to forget about the leukemia treatments he has endured since he was diagnosed at age 2. The homeowners association in January told Brage’s parents that they would have to tear down the treehouse because it didn’t meet deed restrictions. It was allowed to remain after an oncologist declared it a “medical necessity.” Sick boy's retreat violates rules The treehouse can stay

REQUEST DENIED: Tampa Bay Buccaneers receiver Reidel Anthony asks for silence after scoring a second-quarter touchdown, but a young fan behind him ignores the appeal. [Times photo: James Borchuck]

TIME TO CHILL: Pinellas Park firefighter Phil Borum cools off during a surface-rescue training session in July, when the “feels-like” temperature reached as high as 109 degrees. “You’d lose 5 pounds in 15 minutes in this suit on a day like this,” Borum says. “It’s rather nice here in the pool, though.”

[Times photo: John Pendygraft]

[Times photo: Stefanie Boyar] A WINTER HOME: Elephants from the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus are unloaded from the circus train at E Broadway Avenue in Tampa in November. The elephants walked from Broadway to Orient Road to their winter quarters at Florida State Fairgrounds. The circus is at the Ice Palace in Tampa Thursday through Sunday and the Times Arena at Bayfront Center in St. Petersburg Jan. 10-15.

HER FINAL PLACE: A cold rain falls steadily as Boomer Ford digs the grave of his mother, Marilyn Myers, hours before her funeral on her farm, Sweet Rock Bottom in Celina, Tenn., in March. “See the beautiful view she’ll have for eternity?” he asks, looking across a sweep of meadow toward rounded profiles of tree-fringed hills. Ford’s dog, Kaiser, keeps him company. Myers, who died of ovarian cancer at age 50, was the subject of a Times series in which she shared her thoughts about dying. Dancing in the twilight [Times photo: Lisa DeJong]

[Times photo: Michael Rondou] VICTORY JUBILATION: Members of the U.S. 4x100-meter relay team celebrate after their gold-medal performance at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. Times Olympics coverage

[Times photo: Ken Helle]

HEALING ANNA BELLE: Wayne Kauffman, right, holds his dog Anna Belle, a miniature pinscher, as veterinarian Neil Shaw checks the dog’s right front paw in May to see how well it has healed after three weeks of radiation treatments to rid Anna Belle of a mast cell tumor. Healing one of the family