If lucky, perhaps a few choices. And someone to help.

All we have is our lives to live. Even the most powerful, the Governors, the Generals, the most beautiful, those walled up in their castles—they only have their one life to live. 

If lucky, perhaps a few choices. And someone to help.

I wasn’t always Factory Inspector. There had to be a Governor John Peter Altgeld to appoint me. And I would not have met him, without Henry Demarest Lloyd and Jesse Brosse who opened their home to the world, and where I met John Peter Altgeld. 

Governor John Peter Altgeld (1847–1902). Historically, Altgeld is remembered chiefly for pardoning the three surviving men convicted in the 1886 Haymarket bombing [Source: Wikipedia, Public Domain]