About every 75 years, Haley's Comet returns to us. On the day I was born, the comet flew closer to us than ever before. People were terrified. They thought it was an omen signifying the end of the world, but my mother didn't believe. She believed it was an omen, yes, but an omen unannounced by earth. She believed that I'd be a man of great accomplishments like a comet blazing across the sky, but the truth is, I never was.

Hynek