just_me

Three hundred feet below the streets of Moscow it is warm and well lit. A powerful man consults with powerful advisors. Telegrams criss cross the globe. Nations flex new found power. Nikita Khrushchev blinks. Kennedy responds. Crisis averted.

Halfway around the globe, a far older power begins to make itself known. A young woman about to be a mother...goes into labor.

In the intervening years, a small shy child has wandered the globe, become an awkward teen, a quiet young adult, wed, divorced, found business success, gambled, won and lost. The child has found wonders beyond belief, friends more dear than eternity, loves that blind.

Perhaps, here there may be a glimpse into that world...