ABSTRACT
September seemed to arrive late that year but I was more than ready for the fourth grade. The cover of my fat, used textbook entitled "World History" had a picture of the earth taken from an Apollo mission, showing North America bulging out through swirling clouds. Inside the book cover were the names of the previous owners who secured in this way, their own little piece of history: Liam IGm, Yeshwant Jain, Ono Hedeki, Dave "Rules!" McCully. As I carefully wrote my name in the next empty space, I thought of the countries Papa had traveled to for business.
