The world according to Quantum Mechanics:
Anything can happen at least once. Therefore, given infinite time and space, the impossible happens regularly. … Change is the only constant.
And according to Granville James Corbin:
Reality is what you make of it.
Author’s Note
Originally published in 1987, First Citizen is an alternate history of the United States. Readers will notice that certain events recalled by Granny Corbin and Billy Birdsong—such as the invasion of Nicaragua, the XXVIIIth through XXXth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, and the bombing of Washington, D.C.—may not coincide with their own memories of recent history. This is to be expected. Things started going wrong late in the 1980s. After that, they only got worse.