I was born in 1956 in Anchorage, Territory of Alaska. Prior to the Great Betrayal of 1965, I lived there and in Juneau, Alaska, and Alexandria, Virginia. I also spent almost every summer on my grandparents' farm near McIntosh, Minnesota. Of course, my experience could have been duplicated in almost all essentials in every state of the Union, any province of Canada, or, for that matter, in any country in Europe or Australasia, before the Betrayal.