Posted on 12/26/2003 5:49:16 AM PST by SJackson
Edited on 04/22/2004 11:50:42 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
On the first day of January 1959, eight-year-old Carlos Eire awoke to a tropical sun peering through the wooden shutters of his Havana bedroom. There were "galaxies of swirling dust specks" in the soft light and he "stared at the dust, as always, rapt."
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