I guess I became a role model for them. It wasn’t uncommon for me to come home and have Terry look at the wet spot on my shirt from teenage tears. I... learned more than I ever wanted about the angst of young love. Then about ten years into our marriage, our lives were rocked to the core. ~~~~~ Hector Ángel Elizondo was like any other kid living in Ciudad Juárez, until his parents were killed in a drive by shooting when he was ten. He went to live with his uncle, Eyahue Elizondo, more commonly. " Where do you think they come from?" Frannie laughed lightly. "Television? I get a thousand boys and girls a week coming through my agency, with big portfolios and agents and mothers and fathers holding their hands. Do you know how many I send home?" No," Mark shrugged."A thousand a week," Frannie nodded. "The best models, the ones that really make it? They don't know what they are. They're not looking for it; they're discovered. It's a cliché, but only for a very good reason." What's that?". So, I started exploring events from ten to twelve months ago. Boom.” I made the gesture again.“The laser light show in the sky when military satellites destroyed each other,” Ed nodded.“Relax. We’re not at war,” I quoted the president. “The war was over in a couple of hours but it didn’t stay in space. One or more of those satellites had biological weapons on it. Probably targeted toward a specific country. But the explosions 120 miles up, scattered the virus around the globe and it descended. As to the cargo plane and support crew, it was recommended that they be allowed only limited fuel to get them to a Russian destination and be allowed to be on their way with prior notice to friendly nations not to grant them landing rights.This did not apply to the pilots who had used the nomads for gunnery practice or the ruler and son who planned my assassination. There was full agreement that they should be turned over to the nomad chieftains for disposal by their usual methods of partially.