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Farzana had been banned from attending school as a child, but education would take her further than she could have imagined. Bilal's dream of becoming a journalist was about to come true, but it would also expose him to untold danger. Abdul was on the cusp of finally becoming a doctor after his studies were delayed by years of war. Jahan's shoe-shine business was beginning to take a completely unexpected turn. And Naqibullah's life in a quiet province was soon to be shattered by the arrival of Western forces.

In 1713, King Vakhtang VI of Georgia sent his former teacher, the famed polymath and writer Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani, to France and Italy on an urgent diplomatic mission. Squeezed on all sides - by the Persian Empire to the southeast, the Ottoman Empire to the southwest, and Russia to the north - Georgia needed Western allies. Orbeliani seemed the perfect choice to petition the French monarch and the pope, the power brokers of the time, for help.

2 Guys with a lot of life experiences (100+ years combined) discussing/chatting/contemplating a meaningful word, not just any word like peanut butter, which is actually 2 words but life pondering words like Money and Happiness. We look back at the past, our own past, the future, and the here and now. We give our unbridled opinion but in a nice way. We may use the occasional cuss word and uhm in agreement A LOT but you still need to listen because us old farts have something to say.