The Curious Waitress: One Hour Aboard the Elissa

My name is Leslie Anne Brennemann, and my mom was a kind and generous woman as an adult, quiet and religious. There were no indications, when I was growing up, that she was such a big part of history, even the rest of our family was in the dark about it. She was not a spy, or a ninja, or some kind of superhero, she had just graduated high school and started her first job far away from home. Just like me, she didn't fit in. This is the story of one fateful hour aboard the luxury ship Elissa, when an impetuous decision by a young teen, may have saved more than half the passengers and crew of the space vessel. It is a miracle of circumstance that placed a rancher's daughter, in the right place at the right time.