Does an early childhood program have an influence on its participants that is detectable 10 years later? The answer is "yes". This research managed to detect differences between children of Ethiopian origin who had immigrated to Israel. It also managed to generalize and conceptualize these differences and provide an explanation of them: The program began a process of individuation that reinforced itself over the years. The research process succeeded in doing so through the use of a combination of research logic (abduction) and a research method (projective techniques); a combination especially effective where the researcher had no advance hypotheses and no well-defined research variables. (Contains 3 tables and 4 notes.)