My Parents

In the post, "What's It Really All About???" below, I mentioned something about my parents.  When the police project began, I believe they were looking for certain type of people.  My mother had attended a dressmaking and design school which was connected to a dressmaker's shop.--It was what was called haute couture, at the time.  It was high fashion and customers had individual designs made for them.  The clients of the shop included politicians' wives and movie stars.  After my mother's course was over, she worked in the shop for a little while.  She was a working-class person but she had contact with famous people.  Also, my mother's sister-in-law--my aunt--worked on the grounds of the president's palace for a while when she was young.  This was in the country of Finland, in Europe, where my family lived before I was born. 


It wasn't that the police wanted a dressmaker or a gardener, of course.  But they wanted to know that the family could perform quality work, I suppose?  And they wanted a musical family, also.  My father played the piano and that was important.  Pianos, and also organs, were a symbol in the police project.  The pianos and organs represented the silent films of the past; and the police project was an undercover one--it was silent, you could say.  If a family had musical talent, it was also likely they'd have an interest in writing, which was needed.  [Have written about this earlier in my first blog.]


It has all been quite a complicated scheme but I believe the police knew what they were doing; and I just wanted to mention something about my parents here.  They chose the parents first, in my case, and then they followed through to see what kind of children they'd have....  I was the first-born and I seemed to fit the qualifications they wanted....  [And we're still trying to resolve the issues....]