ugh

I don't know which came first, the rocket or the garden. Anybody who could have told you firsthand is dead now, either by exposure to its many seeds, or from Bolshevik "witness protection." However, it's not like they could have told you much, anyways. For them, it was just flashes of light in a sky, and orders being shouted on a radio.

Sometime in early 1962, I don't recall exactly when... that was when we saw it coming. The garden, was what we called it