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| During the year 1968, there were many new ideas, and events that have effected the history
of the U.S. and even the world in big ways. For instance the Tet Offensive made world news, RFK (Robert Kennedy) was assassinated, and the Democratic National Convention riots busted loose. Andy Warhol was shot (he survived). The first Kodak Instamatic camera went on sale. Scientists devise the Epidural to ease the pain of childbirth. 2001: Space Odyssey was released and hit the theaters and drive-ins of America, and the Boeing 747 took off on its' first flight. The ASCII character code is standardized as ANSI Standard X3.4. On DEC. 10, of that year Joe Frazier beats Oscar Bonavena in round 15 for the heavyweight boxing title. Patsy Moran, actress (Children of the Wild), dies at 65, Karl Barth, Swiss theologist/minister (Kirchliche Dogma), also dies at 82, and Thomas Merton, French/US priest/writer (7 Story Mountain), dies at 53. Meanwhile as the world was rocking and grooving to the psychodellic heartbeat of 1968, in the then small farming community of Indianapolis, Indiana at Wishard Memorial hospital a baby boy was born. He weighed in at 9lb. 7oz. and measured 24 inches in length. His Father was William (Bill) Asery Burgett, and his Mother was Dolores Grissom. He was born a bastard. He came about through an extramarital affair that his 50 year old Father was having with his 20 year old Mother. Who can blame 'im? I could go on to digress here and mention the probabilities that his Father was trying to recapture his youth and his Mother was looking for a Father figure herself, but this would be pure speculation and more than likely just a bunch of horse-shit, so I won't. From what I can gather, his Mother really loved his Father, or at least to any degree that she had loved anyone at that time or since. I am not one to argue that. They must have at least loved one another enough to have shared a sexual relationship and not to have aborted the child. The child had two little lumps on his head from the use of forceps during delivery that resembled two small horns. |
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| So my life begins. |
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