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Their father hadn't been able to make the event, being on duty in the Philippines at the time. No one from the immense horde of relatives had come from their scattered homes to the Denver event, so the mother had no one to prevent her from indulging her whims. They were doomed for life. Both of them took after their mother in appearance, with clear, almost translucent skin, flaming hair and deep green eyes. Those ethereal good looks were to be very useful to Art, who discovered at age ten that his lifelong passion was to be the theatre, his dream to be a Shakespearean actor in London.