I looked down at the little pink face in the bundle. A newborn. The child had been alive only minutes but was already considered a criminal by the Soviets.

“I didn’t agree with Cokie. It wasn’t just rich folks. Mother was soul broke, to…”

“Willie said normal was boring and that I should be grateful that I had a touch …”

“We'd been trying to touch the sky from the bottom of the ocean.”

“The fact that Cincinnati thought I resembled him in any way sickened me. It mad…”