Chapter 59
Sunday September 23rd, 2012. According to Willow it was only 256 days until graduation. Her grandfather David tried calculating this, but he ultimately took Willow's word. David was 80 years old. Born in Poland in 1932 he remembered his early childhood fondly. That ended when Germany invaded. David's parents and sister were killed in the Concentration camps. David survived beacause one of the officers was a pedophile. After the was he immigrated to Palestine with other jewish refugees and was tere when the state of Israel was founded. David and his wife had one son, Ira. David also served in operation Moses, which rescued jewish refugees from Ethiopia in the 1980's. David adopter one young refugee, Solomon. But both Ira and Solomon were killed in a terrorist bombing in 1994. Ira had been with an American woman named Sheila Rosenberg. Sheila was pregnant when Ir died. At this point David immigrated to America to be with his only living family, his granddaughter Willow Rosenberg. David now lived with Sheila and Willow. He loved them both, but wondered how Sheila could join this group, "Mothers oppossed to the occult." This group seemed conservative, Sheila normally seemed liberal. David understood Sheila's fear of the satanic preacher. But he'd seen fear and prejudice turn good people into monsters. David understood grief and fear, better than most, he'd lost two sons to the terrorists. He'd been very angry at the Palestinians, still felt that anger sometimes. But David also knew there were good and innocent people on the Palestinian side. They didn't deserve the pain of grief and fear anymore than he did. And ultimately David refused to let the anger and hate consume him, and so he prayed for peace. But he dreaded what the fear could do to the town of Sunnydale, or his own family.