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Eric Smith

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Eric Smith is a software consultant by trade and a lifelong foreign affairs and military history obsessive at heart.

That's just great, but how does that background result an author? Passion for a place.

A couple of decades ago, a friend told Eric about Pitcairn Island honey. "The finest in the world." That led to a deep dive into the history of a tiny, breathtakingly isolated place and their people. That led to the conjoined history of the people of Norfolk Island. Turns out that Norfolk is fighting a very real fight to retain their self determination. It is a fight they are not currently winning.

A few years of obsession and contacts made across the thousands of miles led to a kernel of a story: what if tiny little Norfolk Island could bo
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“always free            to change your mind and                choose a different future, or                  a different                      past.”
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“There is    no such thing as a problem       without a gift for you              in its hands.       You seek problems     because you need       their gifts.”
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“If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.”
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“for your limitations,    and sure enough,          they’re       yours.”
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Ted Halstead
“North Korea bought its first dozen MiG-29s from Belarus in 1995, as the worst part of the Great Famine began, at a cost of nearly half a billion dollars. That would have been enough to feed every hungry North Korean man, woman, and child for two years. Estimates of Great Famine deaths ranged between two to three and a half million. As a result, these dozen MiG-29s had probably killed more people than any others in history, without firing a shot.”
Ted Halstead, The Second Korean War

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