Goodreads asked Jeffery Craig:

What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

Jeffery Craig My great-grandfather immigrated from Prussia in the late part of the nineteenth century. He traveled with a family, although it was not his own. He was about eight years old at the time, and was assigned the surname of that family when he entered through Ellis Island. He never spoke about it, and brushed off all questions by saying he was told by his real parents never to answer. In later years, his descendants tried to back-track the journey, but during the successive destruction of WWI and WWII, many records and documents were lost. I've always wondered who he really was, and why he was leaving his homeland in the company of a family not his own. I'm actually working on a novel now that begins with the that situation. It'll be fun to write and will allow me an author's unique privilege; creating my own answer!

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