When Worlds Collide

This is an episode of the Twilight Zone Mary Style – my wonderful (and very industrious editor) has found these AMAZING headstones today that totally blew me away. These are REAL people who I had no clue who they were when I made up the names of my characters. I was FLOORED. I shouldn’t be, of course, since these are common names, right? I’m tickled and floored (can you be tickled and floored?)

The first picture is of Captain Hans Muller – the REAL Hans Muller (who doesn’t look very Aryan to me)..plus the grave stone of Hans Muller.

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  Captain Hans Muller - the real one

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  Hans Muller Grave

Now the third picture is…Alexander Muller. I just thought up this name for my first novel and it was Eva’s grandfather. Rosa found Alexander’s grave! Notice the date of the real Alexander Muller’s death – 1935. That’s when MY Alexander Muller died. When Eva was 15. Eva was born in 1920 and her grandfather passed away in…1935! SPOOKY!

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  Alexander Muller - Eva's Grandfather

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  Wilhelm Becker - Eva's best friend

The final pic is FATHER Johan Theo FABER. Father Faber is one of my dreamed up characters in the book Hidden Truths. I just put two names together I liked and that was that….obviously not. I think if Rosa finds Eva Lambros or Zoe Lambros, I’m going to go and have a bag of black jelly beans.