The Life and Times of Nathan Swartz: Living with Greatness: An Epic Saga, Part 1: The Birthright
I was born in a hospital bed, somewhere in middle-of-nowhere-used-to-be-a-prospering-coal-town-now it’s a dying white trash ghetto America. Saturday Night Live was playing. My mother, too many hours into the labor to be good for her, was likely racked from the strain, and the hopes and dreams of having a little girl were about to be squashed.
“Oh Sharon…” my newly appointed Grandmother sighed with disappointment, “it’s a boy.”
Shutup was all that came to my mother’s mind, but presumably, she didn’t speak the words. Due to the forceps (read: salad tongues) that were necessary to pry me from her womb, my head was misshapen, oblong and bumpy. I was the ugliest baby in the room, certainly, but all that would change…
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