𝙖𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙝𝙤𝙣𝙚𝙮 | 𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙡𝙚𝙣𝙖 𝙖𝙪.

-- 𝙨𝙪𝙢𝙢𝙖𝙧𝙮.

Niklaus Bradford lived a lavish life in London, England from the moment he was born in 1921. His father, having been born and raised with money and an industrialist, made sure his son had everything he could have wanted. They were what was known as "old money." The Depression had hit them, but not to the point they noticed. While everybody else seemed to scramble, scrape and save, Niklaus never had to. He didn't know that pain. But the pain he did know was emptiness. Despite all his parents' money, there was something missing. He felt it. Life in London came to a sudden pause when he and his family visited rural Texas in June, 1939, in pursuit of an oil field his father couldn't pass up the opportunity to suck absolutely dry for some easy cash. While visiting a run-down circus that had come into town with his brother, he laid eyes on Elizabeth. 

Elizabeth Mendoza stayed in Granbury, Texas all of her life. She'd never known anyplace else. Unlike Niklaus, when the crash of '29 rocked the world, she and her family felt it to their cores. Her mother, June, could barely keep them afloat as it was. She was an elementary school teacher, working her hardest but not being able to give Elizabeth the life she wanted to give her. Growing up in the Depression, she would hear older people talk about how different life was before and had no idea what to even imagine. She was just 7 years old when it hit and just 3 when her father had died of polio. She had never known anything but struggle, until she met Niklaus on a humid summer night in '39.

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                                                              𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙮 𝙨𝙩𝙮𝙡𝙚𝙨 as 𝙣𝙞𝙠𝙡𝙖𝙪𝙨 𝙗𝙧𝙖𝙙𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙙

                                                           𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙣𝙖 𝙜𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙯 as 𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙯𝙖𝙗𝙚𝙩𝙝 𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙤𝙯𝙖

                                                                   𝙩𝙖𝙮𝙡𝙤𝙧 𝙨𝙬𝙞𝙛𝙩 as 𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙧𝙮 𝙬𝙖𝙩𝙨𝙤𝙣