November 22, 1997

I have been aware of the American holiday known as Thanksgiving, even before I immigrated here- or there.

I also knew of Friendsgiving, where friends gathered. I attended quite a few of those back on my world in the years before my first slide.

And so I did my first Friendsgiving on this world. I had come to befriend the faculty here in my own right, even though I was friends with their counterparts.
We had red wine and turkey and stuffing and pumpkin pie. We spoke. My friends here asked about their counterparts on their world, and the similarities astonished them as much as the differences did.

(It was also the 34th anniversary of the assassination of American president John F. Kennedy; it happened pretty much the same as it did in my world)

I also told them that explorers had discovered fantastic new technologies on other worlds, technologies that can benefit us all.

"Maybe they solved the Goldbach Conjecture," said Anna, who was a mathematics professor. She had actually attended the lecture where Andrew Wiles showed his proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.

And there was a football game on the 42-inch TV- the Raiders against the Sharks.

We all had a good time.

And then I recalled something hat Marc LeBeau had told me.

Interdimensional conquerors had conquered my world.

I wondered if my old faculty friends were still alive.