It was a clear night in April.
Something about a plume while they slept.
What was supposed to be a test, turned out to one of the worst atomic disasters in history.
For Kim and Tomik, it was just that and more.
Kim was pregnant with child.
Tomik was forced to evacuate his family from Belarus to Berlin.
The Damage however, was already done.
In November of 86, seven months after the explosion, Tofer was born.
He had an unusually large head. It was so large in, fact that the doctors had to rip open Kim just to free him from the womb.
Kim and Tomik were embarrassed of Baby Tofer’s enormous head. They were afraid of what others might think.
For this, baby Tofer was locked in a room during his formative years and unable to leave or have friends.
During this time, Tofer was inclined to spend his days reading and inventing mathematical equations that would some day cure cancer. Because of this, his head grew bigger.
Well into his twelfth year on earth, Tofer was given a newspaper. It read of the aftermath of Chernobyl and the children born after that time. Because of the size of his head, Tofer’s brain was equally large and he was able to put the pieces together and discover that he two was a child of Chernobyl.
I could not believe that this could happen to me but it can.
And there are many places in the Midwest, twenty five reactors
He can find the others,
They will join a circus
It will give him powers.
He will cure diseases
Tofer knows that the greatest concentrations on radiation still affect the 13 million still living in Belarus, Ukraine, and European Russia. He wishes he could find a way to help them all but he knows in his heart he can do nothing.
Twenty-five years later
He can see the future
But he can’t cure cancer
That’s ok he won’t live
long
Tofer never learned how to speak English
Even though he never had to. But it would have helped his cause greatly. Now sick with disease himself, Tofer on his deathbed wants a kiss before he dies.
Time goes on, the smokes clears, and the danger still exists.
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