Lionel Ortega sat at his desk in his air-conditioned dorm room overlooking the parade ground and beyond it the sports hall, from where he could just hear the sounds of a ball game in progress, thinking back to exactly one year before, to the day his old life had ended and this new life was just beginning. It already seemed so long ago, and he sensed that the old Lionel was no more – he had already changed so much, and all for the better. Having spent his whole life until then in and around Albuquerque, the young Lionel knew Continue reading...