Sergeant Richard Chambers kicked the broken taillight off the highway on to the shoulder. You didn’t see it as much these days, a single car collision, the driver drunk. At least it didn’t happen as often as when he had first joined the force just before the turn of the millennium. He could only imagine the terrible squealing and grinding sounds the accident would have made, but he could see the broken wreckage, the black tire marks, and the blood spread across the road. It was a wintery February 26, 2014. It was cold as Richard Chambers stared out over the empty snow covered field; the din of the traffic was almost inaudible to him now. In fifteen years he had never gotten used to that scene and he knew he never would. He resolved that night that he would do his best to prevent anybody he could influence from becoming a traffic cop.

They arrived at the hospital in two separate ambulances. Joanne Herbst had terrible internal injuries and was admitted to the intensive care unit. Peter Crowley was treated for a broken leg and released into custody of the police. The remarkable thing about them was that they constantly wanted to know about each other even when the cried in pain it was for the other.

Joanne survived six days after the accident. She died of her injuries at 11:00 PM on March 4, 2014. They didn’t reach Peter until 3:00 AM. When he hobbled into the hospital on his crutches, the tears blinding him, he was handed a note that his love had written just shortly before her death.

They found Peter’s body on the bathroom floor. He was pronounced dead from suicide at 3:45 AM on March 5, 2014. They found Joanne’s note in his pocket. Next to him the also found the following words.

The incident had a profound effect on the two nurses that had found the bodies. Judy Dundas and Carla Lewis had met in nursing school. They had become best of friends. When Carla found her job she told Judy that the hospital was hiring. When they could they tried to get the same shifts. That night they knew that it was wrong to read the notes. Except, they were both engaged and the intensity of the love they saw made them curious. They never directly revealed the contents of the notes, but the story of the eternal love affair became legendary in both their families.

Little more than twelve years later, On April 3, 2026, Judy gave birth her second child, a younger brother to her daughter. They named the child after her husband Charles Peters II. Coincidentally Carla gave birth to her second child exactly a month later. Harriet Josephson was born on May 3, 2026. From birth the two children were inseparable. It was clear to all that they would eventually marry.
They never tiered of their mothers’ tale about the lover’s. They could listen all day as the women recounted the story of the accident and the suicide. No matter how much the children begged the contents of the notes were never revealed. The children had to be content with the knowledge that the couple had felt together from the beginning to the end of time. They also were very aware that they the two lovers felt an obligation to make up for their mistakes in the next life.

Chuck and Harry, as they were known went to university together. They entered politics together. They were married on Valentines Day of the year 2051. Harriet wrote the following vows.

The vows Charles wrote went like this.

Together they did accomplish all. For years they worked together, tirelessly for the cause of world peace. In time they were able to bring all the nations of the world together. They became chancellor and vice-chancellor of the Confederation of All Nations—the first true world government. Historians said that the one of the main reasons that the treaty was signed was the work of Charles Peters and Harriet Josephson. The fact that they could work together so well was instrumental in bringing the nations of the world together.

Friends I don’t know whether you believe in reincarnation. Can the events of one lifetime influence the next? Have the currents of time brought us together before. Have I told you this story so many times before and will I come before you to recount time and time again. Or was it just the effect of the lovers on the two young Nurses, so many years ago, that set the stage for the events we celebrate today. You must decide for your self. I don’t know. None the less I know that the tragic events of February 26, 2014 had somehow set the stage for The Confederation of All the Nations. And that is a good thing because two days after the armistice was signed, Richard Chambers III, a physicist, the grandson of a traffic cop, published the definitive work of his career. The article proves irrefutably the feasibility of the doomsday bomb—a bomb that could spell the end of time and space, as we know it.

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