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Sometimes In Life Doing What We Shouldn't Do Is The Emergency

One Thing Is Certain In Life. Just When Things Are Going Well, Soon Afterward They Are Certain To Go Wrong. It's Just The Way Things Are Meant To Be.

As Is So Often The Case With A Legend, Every Incident Has Two Possible Interpretations, The Plausible And The One That Is Molded To Suit The Making Of The Myth. Man Is A Romantic At Heart And Will Always Put Aside Dull, Plodding Reason For The Excitement Of An Enigma. As Doc Had Pointed Out, Mystery, Not Logic, Is What Gives Us Hope And Keeps Us Believing In A Force Greater Than Our Own Insignificance.

Sometimes The Slightest Things Change The Directions Of Our Lives, The Merest Breath Of A Circumstance, A Random Moment That Connects Like A Meteorite Striking The Earth. Lives Have Swiveled And Changed Direction On The Strength Of A Chance Remark.

I Was Born Illegitimately And Almost Immediately, As I Understand It, Placed In An Orphanage. So My Very Earliest Memories Were In An Orphanage. It Was The Tag End Of The Great Depression When I Was Born. People Were Desperately Poor.