Yes. Papa wasn't a "therapist" like my mother thought, or anything so innocuous. He was a senior research scientist. The director of the facility I was kept in, all under the thumb of the US government.
I wasn't ever privy to the details. But there were tensions between nations at the time. Russia, I think.
[Sometimes you only vaguely know about the Cold War through years of barely-gleaned context, or through the very thrilling revelation that the Russians had an underground research facility in a... mall.
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That's right. My powers aren't exactly common in my world, and the government likes to take advantage of that. Or they did.
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[Sometimes you only vaguely know about the Cold War through years of barely-gleaned context, or through the very thrilling revelation that the Russians had an underground research facility in a... mall.
But that's a gruesome story for another time.]
So probably.
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