It’s not often a story touches on disabilities. Especially like mine. I came out of the Air Force with a significant hearing impairment, too close to a flash bang during a combat exercise. Just about two feet from my head, little hearing protection in 1982.. Then as a civilian, I fractured 4 vertebrae in my thoracic spine, 1993, then, again in 2,004 compression fractures of 7 vertebrae in both my thoracic and lumbar spine.. I healed, to a point, I’m still under treatment, pain mostly.. which never ends. I’m slowly losing my ability to walk, can just for a few minutes now, before the pain makes me sit down. But like that alien girl, it drives me crazy, I NEED to be of use to my family, my wife, our two grown kids.. daughter and son.. to not be a burden on them. But it is hard, the more I push, the worse my condition gets, the worse the pain.. While I really wish I wasn’t disabled.. any encouragement even from just stories helps.. there is so little in science fiction, my favorite genre, to find encouragement in.. as their medicine is almost like magic. And disabilities are almost nonexistent. Well in real life they aren’t.. which doesn’t help.. so I really liked this one.

There's that AI word palpable yet again,....there has to be a word that means the same but isn't that specific word, for God's sake?😂❤️🦬💋✳️🪨♊

but the US from now has a long way to go

@@juergenwolf5476 HAHAHAHA. I don't think there's any way back. If the so called leader of the free world is only about 20% there and hasn't got a clue who's who, Your'e gone.

​@@juergenwolf5476As long as that road doesn't lead to what the commies falsely claim is a utopia. Remember, bad things are usually wrapped up in pretty packaging. And they're never as good as advertised.