“Tony, you can be so naïve. Who cushioned your fall from the cliff in college? Who saved you from your own drunken stupidity in the car accident north of Tucson? Who saved your ass countless times in Vietnam and later? You have no f*****g idea how close you came on your twenty-first birthday. You survived all of those events and several others because you have a role to play in a Grand Scheme. Who sent Gretchen on her path to intersect with yours? My special friends connected with you in 1966 and they’ve been looking out for you ever since.”
“Are you saying that I was abducted? I don’t remember anything like that.”
“You weren’t abducted. The beings don’t have to kidnap, examine, experiment, or abuse our species like in the trashy movies. When they encountered you, because of the differen
