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1968 ( 0 Years Old )

My fortuitous life began shortly after conception. In that for reasons I am not privy to, I was not exactly the fruit of desired labors, but instead a surprise of desirous labors. Fortunately, the female of this duo was compassionate enough to carry me the requisite period and handed me over to be raised elsewhere. I have never met this woman, but have sent her my thanks (through my adopted mother) for her great and kind sacrifice. and, one can only begin to comprehend the gesture of giving a baby up for adoption after they themselves have had a child. unfathomable.

As a fellow adoptee was told by his nurturing mother, "you may not have been expected, but you were selected." Gotta love maternal spin control. Anyway, I made it down the chute and fortunately escaped the vacuum or other such inconvenience and entered the worldly fray under the name Mark Allen Lombardo.