Story [Highlander] Child of the Universe * DDC 2013 * COMPLETE

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Oh, my! The Claire/Max thing landed with a dull thud. Jazz is definitely a branch of music to be in love with, as I am. Big bands and contemporary

 

The Great Depression. That is going to be a sucky time to live. Luckily my parents were kids and children often don't know how bad things are.

Another horrible thing that happened was the Spanish Civil War with possibly 200,000 dead. Some of my family members died during that war. Over 20,000 children were evacuated to various countries including the US. In 2006 I was contacted by one of these children (who now was an old man) to help him hunt down the other children refugees that came to the USA with him in the late 1930's. All I had was the ship passenger manifest, but I managed to find half of the refugees. They ended up getting together for a reunion and wrote a book where I am mentioned. That was a feel-good thing for me.

 

JL and Hazel I am so enthralled by your reminiscences How cool to be mentioned in a book. Woot, on a lighter note LOL Claire will have a lot to say about the '50s and the '70s

 

Claire and Max are not having an easy go of it! Hopefully they'll reunite before the next war.

 

Claire and Max still are not quite in the same frequency. We'll have to be patient.

Thanks girls, for sticking around. The story will get more interesting soon.

 

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If all else fails...cheat. I think shooting them first is a great idea for a young girl.

 

Very interesting comparison! And I feel bad for Claire, having to dodge and kill attackers. Good thing she's clever!

 

Thank you both!!

Claire is not a strong player so she does what she can to survive. It's not like she looks for trouble but sooner or later trouble finds her and has to deal with it.

 

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Gripping stuff and a very tragic context.

 

That is sad. So if you are an immortal and your first death is as a newborn...you stay at that age? That would suck.

 

Thanks Jade!

Yup! Unfortunately that is how it works, but a newborn would have absolutely no defenses and wouldn't survive very long after.

There was a case of a child immortal in the TV series which is where i drew inspiration for this post. His name was Kenny and he looked like a 10 year old only he was hundreds years old already. Either of you would feel sorry for him, he was a predator that took advantage of those who thought him weak and literally attacked them from behind.

 

That's horrible! poor Claire and Sara

 

Yes, it is! It really is.

Thanks for reading.

 

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Hi: Very compelling and real-to-life. Hazel, I agree with Claire ... if WWII had lasted one more year :shock: It's a mercy it didn't. She's also right about the wars ravaging Europe in the earlier centuries where went on and off for like 30 or 100 years.

 

Nice. A bunch of immortals vs. the Nazis. That sounds cool. It is too bad their weren't more of them.

 

Go, Claire!

All I wanted to do was to crawl to some dark corner, curl up and sleep for a very long time.

I love this line!

 

Thanks girls!

Wow, I can't believe this thread has gotten 11400 views. I guess I need to thank my lurkers too. I sure would like to hear from you all.

 

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Cool stuff, Claire is embracing rock and all things Elvis and the Beatles etc. Glad she was able to get healing and help others and reconnect with her love of music.

 

I never thought of immortals having psychological problems, but since they went through so much it would make a lot of sense. Nice update.