The Adventures of Rusty Waters

....At this moment, my feet bound, hanging on a hillside with my head downhill, surrounded by men with machine guns who did not speak much English.
At this moment hidden deep in a jungle, hours from civilization, on an expedition of 6 looking for the enormous mountain gorillas.
At this moment looking up at the determined face of a man wielding a machete' over his head and bringing it down at me hard and fast
At this moment....wondering what the heck was I thinking?

In the blink of an eye (mine) the machete'....

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The year was 1935. It was the middle of a worldwide depression. The economic hardships their parents were undergoing made it a tough year for many children to celebrate Christmas. One little girl in particular had no hope of any kind of Christmas celebration at all. Her mother had committed suicide a few years earlier.
Her father was "difficult".