Five Past Midnight (ePub)

I came into this troubled world during the early morning hours of June 17, 1950, in the city of Budapest, Hungary. I was the first and last child of my forty-one-year-old mother and my father who was forty-five years old at the time of my birth.

As I did not know any better, I could not possibly understand that we were living in poverty as I was growing up with loving parents and there was always a bite to eat. My childhood was poor and saddened with tragedies. As a six-year-old child, I witnessed the bloody 1956 revolution and received the first taste of true prejudice by those of whom I thought liked us, yet turned against my family. That tragedy did not match the untimely death of my beloved father when I was not yet seven years old on February 14, 1957. My mother remarried in 1959 and our financial situation was upgraded from poverty to poor.

After finishing elementary school I made a decision to earn money as soon as possible to ease our financial situation and I enrolled in a two year business college (high school diploma was not required), I began working as a sixteen year old certified secretary/bookkeeper. During the same period I began my high-school education, which I completed while working full time and attending night school.

I discovered my love for writing when I was eleven years old after a movie that my childhood friend and I saw in the movie theater. We were not pleased with the ending and Steven suggested that I should write a different ending that we both liked. Voila, a writer was born. With my family's encouragement, I entered a writing contest given by a youth oriented magazine and to my genuine surprise, I won second price.

My desire to live in a free country and to improve my life was so great, that in 1972, leaving everything, including my aging parents behind, I managed to escape from Hungary during a tour to Austria, (then) Yugoslavia and Italy. I spent almost ten long months in a rat infested refugee camp, located Capua,

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