Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog
I come from Wood River, Illinois, across the Mississippi River from St. Louis.
My father came from Budapest and was research director of a Shell Oil research laboratory.
He accumulated 76 patents and spoke many languages. My mother came from Silesia, in what used to be Germany, and first worked as an Au Pair in suburban New York. I was the youngest of three boys, and the only one smiling in our group pictures.
We moved to Niagara Falls New York when I was in first grade and my father built a laboratory in the basement to do his consulting work. Looking out my window across the Niagara River, I could see Canada. Just before I was 15, I traveled alone by sea to Germany to see my mother’s relatives and cycled from Switzerland to Bavaria and then up to the North Sea.
As soon as I got home, we…
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