Sometimes serendipity happens. Sometimes events effect everything and it is important to evaluate everything in life from a different viewpoint. Trying to blend history and family with matters of the heart are often challenges, but evil parents can make things impossible. But when you choose to stand up to the criticism about what others think, the problems diminish or disappear into the fog of war and mists of myths and magic as the realities of life are influenced more by sex than by parental ego demands. I live in Kansas, home of the Wizard of OZ. I traveled to the UK six times without a balloon or a tornado. But I think I fell for OZ, too. Without the help of the Wicked Witch of a mother that left the munchkins to survive on their own in an estate to big to afford and fleeting heraldry and future nobility a vanishing inbred dream.