I cannot begin to even relate the emotional state your book left me
in. I never realized how many parallels your life and mine have
taken; it was almost as though I was reading about
myself. Obviously, i never starved myself because i had "nothing" to
eat (although i got scurvy while studying in Spain), or had to eat
dirt with a rifle barrel at my head (but there was this one time at
the B-52 base....jejejeje). But the journeys searching for an answer
to questions unasked and not fully pondered, are amazingly similar.
I remember meeting a girl in Mexico city after I had just been hit by
a car...She had been taking flight instruction at Purdue University
from the same flight instructor who had been teaching me at my local
airport....and was I ever glad to talk to someone in english after
suffering such a calamity. The world is such a large place, but yet
so finite...it makes a circle and once around it, you start the
journeys over again.
There were times that tears rolled down my face, and I will tell you,
it has been a very long time since i have shed a tear, let alone shed
one from something so moving as a book. I tell you these things,
because I believe you have provided many with a lot to think about.
May good reviews shower you.
Phil of Ohio