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My brothers and I followed my mother’s lead by embracing books. We read National Geographic magazine with her. She read three news papers each morning; New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle and our town favorite the local Press Democrat in Sonoma County. I embraced the world outside of a safe comfort zone. Often I regret having left the paradise of the San Francisco Bay Area. I sleep peacefully in parks when I pull over to park my car at a rest stop in the redwood groves surrounded by marijuana farms. But I paid the price by leaving so that I could explore the world. I wanted to understand government. I went to the walks in Tel Aviv, Yugoslavia, Egypt, Israel, Turkey. I lived in Prague when Czechoslovakia split. There was a civil war in the main avenues of Prague, San Francisco during the Persian Gulf War, and I was surprised because I had just come back from Cairo, Luxor, and Aswan, Egypt when the bombs were dropped on Baghdad in Iraq. I was at the World Trade Center when the towers were attacked September 2001.

Written by Thomas Chee.

This is a work of fiction. These books and novels are works of fiction.

Unless otherwise indicated, all the names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents in this book are either the product of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

Published by Thomas Chee.

Copyright © 2021 Thomas Chee

All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission from the publisher, except as permitted by U.S. copyright law.

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