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Rebecca's father was a high ranking Air Force officer who worked his way through the ranks to become a four-star General in the years after the war. During the war, he flew the first B-29 bombing missions against Japan, and was assigned to plan and supervise the bombing of Hiroshima. After the completion of the atomic tests at Bikini Atoll, her father was assigned the command of Roswell Army Airfield in New Mexico, and it was during his watch that the Roswell UFO Incident occurred. He died at the Pentagon at the age of 50 from a heart attack, though Rebecca was convinced he was murdered. Her...

Jack Wendell's rite of passage into adulthood began three hours before midnight on the eve of his twenty-first birthday. On his stroll across campus, he watched one foot follow the other in a rhythmic pattern and thought about time. As he stepped from the past into the future, he was stunned by the realization that the present moment was so fleeting that it couldn't exist. His breathing became shallow and feelings of horror flushed through his body in spasms, like waves crashing on the shoreline, retreating, then returning in another blow. He was convinced that he had entered a portal into...

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