Will you tell me my father’s name?” I asked her. She said no. "Will you tell me your name?" A long pause. I waited, hopeful.

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In 1977, when I was born, my original birth certificate was locked away by the courts, and the truth of my birth was withheld from me. What should have been the beginning of my story was treated as ...