Iıve always wanted to live off planet. This is the only chance Iım likely to get.
I was born in a small town in Michiganıs Upper Peninsula and started preparing even as a kid, taking the hard courses in math and science and staying out of trouble. I got into a good Engineering school with a minor in Planetary Studies. But when my dad, my brother Don, and sister Dora were arrested for agitating against the system, (they called it distributing subversive literature), well if I hadn't been away at school I surely would have been arrested too. As it was I was put on the black list and my chances for getting off Earth were between slim and none and slim was out of town.
I never gave up on the dream, and with this chance I just might make it.