 The Beginning
 rom the time we are born, life runs us through a collision course with reality. Every challenge we face brings with it a wealth of new skills. Without the difficult, stressful, and frightening times in our life we never learn perseverance, strength, or courage. We can not build strength without actually working a muscle. After using a muscle we are sore and in pain yet the muscle grows stronger through this process. The same is true for human soul. The more darkness a person must endure, the brighter their light can shine.
This was the case for Juliana and Benjamin. Their lives were brutal and full of constant challenges. To understand the light these two share, one must see the depths of the darkness that their lights had to endure.
For Juliana, a native to Bratislava Slovakia, her journey began several years ago and nearly
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 Prologue
5700 miles away from the point of contact. Her father, Milan Rastislav Gajdos was the director of Czechoslovakian airlines, the country's premier airline. Her mother, Sidonia Gajdosova-Haljakova was a famous Slovak opera singer and vocal trainer. Life was anything but ordinary for Juliana growing up in the eastern block during the transition from communism to becoming it's own democratic state. After the fall of the wall and velvet revolution in 1989 the communist regime collapsed, Czechoslovakia became a democratic state, and in 1993 dissolved peacefully into the Czech Republic and Slovakia. With the memories of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin fresh on the minds of the older generations, Slovakia was a chaotic country experiencing growing pains and a complete shift in their belief system.
By the time Juliana was 25 she had seen and lived in Slovakia, Australia and Italy, along with visiting a dozen other countries. It wasn't until
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