Discovering Anna

Place yourself at the time of your youth. A teen, seventeen to be exact. Crossing the great Atlantic ocean. Children staring bright eyed at the billowing smoke stacks of the ship. The biggest vessel you have ever seen for sure. Perhaps the group of boys huddled in the bow are ogling you. Teasing each other, daringly. Who would be the bravest to sheepishly approach you to ask your name. You are after all a very beautiful young woman. Setting out on your own for a new world, A better place, as they've said. You are more than likely a bit scared and excited at the same time. What about home? Alone on a huge boat with five hundred other people. Strangers all. What will your Mother and Father do without you? Will you ever see them again? You begin to cry.