PROLOGUE When we became a couple in love, we were constantly thinking about how we could make each other happy or make a surprise. One Sunday evening, for example, I was waiting for Jana at the train station when she returned from her parents' house in Lanskroun. I...

Jana and I met for the first time at the beginning of the fall semester of 1979, when we both began studying molecular biology at the Faculty of Science at the then J.E. Purkyne University in Brno, Czech Republic. We were both 18 years old. We didn't immediately fall...