Ehud Gat was born in 1981, the Chinese Year of the Rat, and as such tends to grow a thin mustache, has a crave for sweets and the tendency to be the first one to abandon sinking ships (no "Women and Children first" here). His first foray into creative story-telling was at age 5, when he told his kindergarten nurse a story of how his family had a weekend trip to the snowy Mt. Hermon. The story seemed so realistic and compelling that the nurse made a point of commenting to Ehud's father about how the kid enjoyed the trip... only to discover dear old dad had no idea what she was talking about. Eh...