There is one person I would dearly love to meet but odds against are pretty steep - world conditions, distance and time . . . 

I have pictures from the middle east and then Europe where work took the parents. It has been nearly 7 months since I bought a gift I thought I might hand over in person but now I think the pictures will be all I ever know of my first and only great grandson . . . and what will he ever know of me - only other's memories. 

At least I knew of his existence.