Excerpted from What the Aliens Left Me by Patrick David MacKondy Copyright © 1998 FATE Magazine September 1998 Twinsburg, Ohio, was a great place to raise a family in 1966. I was a dapper, sandy-haired six-year-old. I lived in a beautiful new apartment complex with my father, mother, and sister. My father was an advertising director for a regional grocery chain, and he was in the process of building us a stately Colonial house down the street. I have wonderful memories of waiting for my dad to get home from work at 5:30. We would walk to our future home to check on the day’s progress. Even today, when I smell freshly cut plywood or drywall, memories of those days rush back to me. Our […] Read More