Lauren
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Orest Stelmach:
I just finished The Boy from Reactor 4 and I was curious: I read in the acknowledgements that the idea for the story came from Jaromir Jagr and I cannot conceive the connection. Can you please elaborate? As a longtime Penguins fan, I'm stumped. Thanks!
Orest Stelmach
Hi Lauren, I'm so sorry I didn't see your question earlier. I feel terrible. After the Pens drafted Jagr, he spoke of defecting from what was Czechoslovakia at the time, whose government was a puppet of the Soviet Union. He said he dreamed of a better life in a free world his entire childhood, and that he carried around a picture of Ronald Reagan, keeping it a different school book every year, as a reminder of the USA and the hope it brought him. And that is how I conceived of the Boy from Reactor 4. Happy New Year. orest
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Abhinav Ka
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Orest Stelmach:
Hi Orest, I just completed The Boy Who Glowed in the Dark. So my question is rather obvious. What happens to Johnny Tanner? I sort of liked the guy. The way he would do anything for Nadia. And I felt sad that his love wasn't reciprocated. How would you end his side of the story?
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