I was born big and just kept getting bigger.
She was almost ten and a half months along when the doctor decided to get me the heck out of there before I exploded from her stomach like some kind of alien hatchling. Mom’s pregnancy was difficult and very long. I was born in Salina, Ohio, the first and last child of Annabelle Kropp. Arthur Myers actually was, or that his name wasn’t even Arthur Myers.īut I’m getting ahead of myself again. Of course, Uncle Farrell had no way of knowing who Mr. Myers flashed the cash, all other considerations-like if any of it was legal, for instance-were forgotten. Being poor isn’t one of those things you get used to, even if being poor is all you’ve ever been. Arthur Myers came along with his once-in-a-lifetime deal, my uncle was forty years old and sick of being poor. He never had much money growing up and, by the time Mr. It began with my uncle Farrell wanting to be rich. A lot of people died because of me-including me-but I guess I’m getting ahead of myself and I’d better start from the beginning.
Maybe after you hear my story you won’t think I’m much of a hero anyway, since most of my heroics (if you want to call them that) resulted from my being a screwup. Nobody would have, including you, if you had known me before I took the world’s most powerful weapon and let it fall into the hands of a lunatic. I never believed in angels or miracles either, and I sure didn’t think of myself as a hero. I never thought I would save the world-or die saving it.
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