When I was thinking of writing the first line of this book, the first word that came to mind was When, and so I thought I should explain why this is the first line.
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This book was surely conceived on an otherwise ordinary afternoon, when a seemingly normal American boy opened his eyes to a brand new reality, and chuckled so loud that the ducks went coo-koo. "The rest," they say, "is history," and we all know that history is filled with extraterrestrials and Jesus, which helps us admit that we all believe in paradox while actively pursuing means to deny it.
To read this book is to use your imagination, and one must be careful not chuckle out loud too early. But honestly, and just between you and me, this story is about the resilience of an American boy and several million or so of his closest friends and relatives, and how they are creating the world we will all soon inhabit.
With the funds raised, the real-life characters of this book will continue to journey to new spaces in search of silence and ideas, stories and facts, robots and rockets, tattoos and trees, ancient scrolls and souls. The publisher has insisted that you buy this book early on, for a reduced price, in order to show the world an early glimpse of what is to come. The author accepts that with your early support and your name in the credits, you can say that you were there when it all went down.