 She heard what I was saying, but she didn't understand it. I might as well have said, hey, mom, the Martians landed. We watched the moving pictures as we bathed in cathode rays, staring at a TV set we didn't turn off for days. I was just a kid, and still the future beckoned, but the world's been very different since November 22nd. The 60s were a struggle, and we began to feel we'd opened up a wound and it might never heal.