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Weekly Contest #324
Like a Fish out of Water I was the fish. My water was Hungary. It wasn’t just “like” but real, first person. It was 1975. I was having the time of my life in high school. My junior year. I was popular, busy, well-rounded, intelligent, educated, cultured, and quite pretty. When my father came to visit, he announced that he was headed to Austria to visit his friend. Of course, I wanted to tag along. Austria appealed to me then, and I still miss it. At the time, Hungary was communist. It was a rare opportunity to travel to a Western country. I...
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