Two Different Worlds

<p>When Teressa was six and her brother Manny four their mother died and their father disappeared. Their mother's doctor and her husband adopted them and they grew up in a good home where they were supported in the challenges of growing up Mexican in an Anglo family.</p><p></p><p>In 1905 Manny then eighteen entered the Naval Academy and began a life characterized by duty honor routine and the engagement of his life to a greater purpose. It led him and his young wife into the maelstrom know as the Great War he flew experimental aircraft and she was a surgeon in a hospital tent on the Western Front.</p><p></p><p>Teressa went west well not really very far west. She was going to be an actress in San Francisco. Unfortunately the San Francisco Earthquake destroyed her dream along with a thousand others. Shortly thereafter a childhood sweetheart reappeared and she married him and followed him back to the South Pacific where she spent half her time sailing on a 73 foot island schooner and the other half living in a house on a cliff that overlooks the Coral Sea and is 20 miles from anywhere.</p><p></p><p>This is the story of their different lives and how they ended up at the same place.</p>