But history does matter. There is a line connecting the Armenians and the Jews and the Cambodians and the Bosnians and the Rwandans. There are obviously more, but, really, how much genocide can one sentence handle?

With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight.

The reality is that most of North America knows next to nothing of the 20th centurys first genocide - the systematic slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians in the First World War.

He recalls what that first German soldier said to his major: No God-not yours or mine-approves of what you're doing.

But history does matter. There is a line connecting the Armenians and the Jews and the Cambodians and the Bosnians and the Rwandans. There are obviously more, but, really, how much genocide can one sentence handle?

I have lived with magic and without magic, and I can tell you with certainty that a life with magic is better.

My grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves.