Congratulations, you're a science fiction writer! One of the subgenres is Alternate History. . . what if a given historical event had turned out diffently? (Midwife to Anne Boleyn: "It's a boy!" Midwife to Mary: "It's a girl.")THEN, how would SUBSEQUENT events be different?
I can't imagine folk music as it exists today without Woody. . . quite aside from the songs he wrote, he encouraged Pete Seeger to drop out of Harvard and go out on the road with him. . . . I'm glad we live in the universe that had Woody in it. Toward the end of the joe Klein biography he does some speculation of his own of how the disease helped Woody's synapses slip and spark a little differently from "ordinary" people. . . not sure I agree but one wonders. . . I find myself slipping into Dr. Pangloss' belief that this is the best of all possible worlds.