Jack Weatherford

And he rode away.

and he looked back and forth, and it said that the pigtails, or the braids that were hanging down, were whipping back and forth from his chest to his back.

He was divided, obviously, in whether he should go or stay.

But the three men were approaching again, and they were headed straight for the cart this time, and they came in, and they took Erlun.

She didn't say a word until her husband was over the ridge.

And when he was over the ridge and she could no longer see him, she began to scream and wail.

And one of the brothers said to her, doesn't matter if you shake the waters out of the river and if you shake the mountains with your screaming, you will never see this man again.

And he was right.

That was the moment that Genghis Khan's mother and father met.

That's the beginning of his story in this kidnapping.

And it's going to reverberate.

Every detail of it will come back again and again, not only throughout the story of the life of Genghis Khan, but it's going to continue on with the feuds and the issues caused by it all the way into the future.

And to some extent, in certain parts of the world, you could say it still exists.

What I was really interested in was

How did this happen?

Who was this person?

As Wordsworth wrote in his poem, you know, the child is father of the man.

And it's the childhood that created him.

And it's that episode that was before he was born.

But all the things that happened throughout his childhood made him into the man that he became.