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CHAPTER ONEMunich, Germany, December 201951Erik Fleischer was a man who counted his blessings.His wife was an attractive woman, hair cascading in golden waves over square shoulders, a smile that lit her inner soul, and spellbinding blue eyes. Still adoring after five turbulent years.He had two...

JANUARY 1 January Oh gawd. Woke up with the most terrible hangover, panting for water, heart beating, sweating very unlike me. Haven't had one like this since the sixties. (And now I remember it, I didn't feel too hot after my retirement party, either, at the school, but that was because the...