From: dbriggs Newsgroups: alt.ql.creative Subject: QL: "Farm Boy" - Part Five Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 21:04:11 -0800 Organization: IDT Message-Id: <32EC374B.810@mail.idt.net> Nntp-Posting-Host: ppp-6.ts-1.yon.idt.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Chapter Five At the bottom of the page, there was written, "Your friend, Albert Calavicci, USN." "Oh, boy! Oh, boy! Oh, boy!" Sam exclaimed clasping onto Kelly's letter. "Oh, boy!" Sam had no clue on what to make of his new found information. All evidence pointed to the facts that Al had told him when Sam was doing his chores was absolutely right about Kelly. All of the evidence that Sam needed he was grasped in his hand. The evidence that Sam needed was in the form of a letter which passed over boundries, which Sam thought only humans could pass. In fact, Sam felt he had even more evidence then he needed to convice him of Kelly's secret. He could no believe it, but everything was absolutely true. It now seemed somewhat realist and logical. It had to be. It was a discovered fact of absolute truth. All of the information lead to the discovery. It was a massive discovery about his girlfriend. The discovery could not have been made any other way, but though the circumstances that came though his leap. KELLY WAS A TIME TRAVELER! Sam doubted that Kelly was also a leaper. There was no way she could be. She was always Kelly Viaggio. she was born Kelly Viaggio. She was growing up as Kelly Viaggio. most probably she would die as Kelly Viaggio, if she never got married or changed her name. She was living a perfectly normal life, but with a twist. The twist was that she lived in different times. As well as changing places to live, she had also changed times to live. To her, livig in a certain year was just like living in a certain neighborhood or in a certain apartment or house. It was nothing more than that. Sam had always wanted to travel though time, and had finally achieved his wish as a adult. To him, traveling though time had always meant being able to help others. He guessed that time travel to Mrs. Viaggio meant the same thing. She was always helping others both in New York City and in Elk Ridge. Maybe, the Viaggios had influenced him subconsciously to pursue his wish of controlling time, as well as consciouslly influencing him to help others. Mrs. Viaggio just did things through different means, and had just decided to take her family along for the ride. Sam looked down at the signature of the letter again. The letter read, "Albert Calavicci." He guessed that this too was logic. Al was once young. He grew up in the large city of New York. It was perfectly logically for the Viaggios to know him, since they too came from the Bronx, just like they knew Sam when he was growing up in Indiana. Al used to be Kelly's brother's best friend, just like Kelly used to be Sam's girlfriend. Everthing was perfectly normal. They were all living their lives - lives that transcended the boundaries of time. Sam had no idea on why the Viaggios chose these places and times, but he flet that Mrs. Viaggio had some reason behind it, even if the reason was hidded from him and also from her own daughter. Kelly had said earilyer that day that her mom had a readon behind it. Sam also recalled her telling him that her mother was a "free spirit" and a "gypsy" when she was younger - in other words, a hippie. It felt unusual and nonsensical that all of the bad thigs that he heard about "those people" could possible have included Kelly's mother. Mrs. Viaggio - in Sam's knowledge and opinion - did not seem like the type of person to be categorized at all in that group. She was always for America as much as he was. She never seemed as free as the wind, but lived the life of a mature responsible small town adult. He knew that she grew up, just as almost everyone else that was young in the sixties did. Everyone was young once, and may have done many different things very different then what they did as a adult. Opinions and lifestyles constantly change as one grows older. Mrs. Viaggio was a part of the generation that was young during the 1960's, just like many people who had children about the same time Kelly was born. Still, it felt biazatte that Mrs. Viaggio was a part of the same generation as he was in - the same generation Kelly was in. Yet, Mrs. Viaggio was a part of a different generation. She was a adult. Sam and KElly were both teenagers. Kelly was about one year older than Sam. Kelly was not many years younger, like she was supposed to be. Kelly and Sam were almost the exact same age, and were in the exact same grade in high school. Al, too, was only a few years older than her, when Kelly lived in the Bronx and at the point where the letters were coming from, wherever that may be. Al was only five years older than her - the exact same age as her older brother, who was born in 1975. He wished that he and al wre actually young in Kelly's present. *If Al, Kelly, her brother and I were all lived in the present as young people, it would be exactly like how Kelly is viewing the world,* Sam figured. *She does not see us seperated by years, but only by land. It is as if we are all around the same age. If we were, we probably would all be considered either in or almost a part of the same generation. What did they call Kelly's and her brother's generation again? It was a letter. A? No, it was later in the alphabet. Z? No, that's not it. X! X is the letter of mystery and secrets. Nothing is more of a secret than time travel. According to her, we are all part of Generation X, only displaced by time. I think I remember Generation X being called "the generation without an identity." Well, instead of being called "the generation without an identity," we are a generation without a time line. We are would-be Generation X-'ers. X marks the spot!* Note: In Italian, "Viaggio" means "I travel" or "I take a trip." I chose this word to reflect Kelly's family time traveling. Monica