EAST SIDE STORY. JEWISH AND GAY LIFE IN COSTA RICA AND WASHINGTON D.C (1950-1980) A NOVEL OR A TRUE STORY? by JACOBO SCHIFTER - HTML preview

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CHAPTER 56. QUANTUM PHYSICS

What sense has it made to have lived so much trauma in these decades? Have we improved the situation for those who come after us? They probably won’t care and it’s no consolation for our generation. Perhaps the answer lies in quantum physics.

According to this, every time a decision is made, a door opens in another universe. In this universe, for example, millions of Jews did not die in gas chambers and would be alive and continuing with their lives, leading them to a happy ending. The same would happen with sexual orientation. In this universe, by choosing one orientation, another one opened in a neighboring world. So, we are all heterosexual and homosexual in this cosmos of multiple universes. In these parallel universes, Kennedy would not die in Dallas and would continue his career elsewhere.

“Ted, in a parallel universe we have been heterosexual, and this could affect the one in which we are not. If you are now homosexual, in another universe you could have been a better heterosexual. And heterosexuals depend on us to be happier in theirs.

Both orientations would thus be necessary and complementary.”

“We agree on this. If two people so different and from such different cultures met through a hamburger, it can only mean that they had a mission. It would 202

also be possible for our admired President Kennedy to cross from one universe to another and not die. They say that a boy, during his visit to Costa Rica, when he came to caress his cheek, had warned him: “Don’t go to Dallas.”

“A day before the trip, the universe bifurcated and like Schrödinger’s cat, Kennedy would choose to go and not go to Dallas and would be, then, alive and dead at the same time. I have also heard that when the boy was about to die, someone would help him protect his head. There is the universe also bifurcated and you would be alive here and dead there.”

“It is very likely. I also believe that this boy could have not gone that day to deliver the hamburger and perhaps you yourself would have, without having the damn Hoover on top of you and ready to blackmail you by revealing that relationship, obtained the position you wanted so much.”

“If I had won that post you’d be the first Jewish Jacky Kennedy”

“You must be kidding, right? If I had to be Jacky I prefer to skip the Kennedy’s stage and go straight to Onassis.

“Our relationship has not been perfect here. But I wouldn’t trade it for a position in politics. Maybe, in another universe, I would have been a Democrat and would have obtained it, but here I don’t care. What I have wanted is not to die without you by my side.