Dedication and Epigraph

I dedicate all of the time and heart that I put into this to all those in the world who haven't let the cold winds and seemingly unending nights put out their eternal flame in their hearts. To those who continue to love and create warmth in such a bone chillingly cold world we live in, keep your head up and "Respice ad futurum". Finally, I dedicate this to the woman I love but can never hold, may we meet in the next life, for our hearts are surely always connected...

"The immortal gods are wont to allow those persons whom they wish to punish for their guilt sometimes a greater prosperity and longer impunity, in order that they may suffer the more severely from a reverse of circumstances."

-Julius Caesar

"What is a man but the sum of his memories? We are the stories we live! The tales we tell ourselves!"

-Clay Kaczmarek