What were you born with?

I feel it's time to share a little more about me.

According to my records... records to this day, I can't trust as being truthful anymore because I have documented proof I have been lied to several times over about simple matters like my name and such... because I was adopted.

I was born on a certain date by a certain woman, and given a certain name.

All these facts have been changed, for whatever reason.

There are some facts that can't be changed. I'd like to reveal some of them.

I have brown hair and brown eyes.

I have near-perfect vision and teeth.

My skin is super-soft, and am not at all hairy. Every seven years, the body regenerates itself. Why? I dunno.

I have a wicked sense of humor, and yet I don't laugh very often.

I love to read, hate to watch TV, but love to listen to music. Jazz gives me a headache.

I am far too fertile for my own good.

I was very sick as a child, having many cases of tonsilitis, yet didn't have my tonsils removed until I was in my thirties. I had my apendix removed when I was 15 or 16, soon after the first of 4 knee surgeries. [I performed at Carnegie Hall soon after that surgery, limping on stage. I performed, and collapsed in the car soon after. I did not have dinner at the Russian Tea Room, as promised by my parents. I was really disappointed about that. My mother said I was being selfish about that. I performed for her and my dad, all I wanted was a dinner out, it was right next-door... but I was being selfish. Sure, I can see how she would see it that way. I was still a kid.]

I was never good at math; I always hated numbers, and I learned this past year my adoptive mother forged my signature on IRS tax forms. In my mind, it all makes sense.

I have all 10 fingers and 10 toes, but get Athlete's Foot all the time because everyone uses my shower, and no one but me scrubs it with bleach. I'm the only one with itchy-feet and it drives me crazy. I call it poetic justice, given my over-sensitivity to everything in this world.

All my babies were born with eczema and allergies; my twins have asthma... I developed stress-induced asthma. I always had allergies when I was a child. Asthma must run in my family. From what I was told from my non-id information, they were both from a large family of farmers.

I got my first period when I was 12. I had my first baby when I was 24. I discovered my lump when I was 32. Twins run in my family. My daughters need to go to a gynocologist, and be examined.

I know I can forgive certain things, but I can't forget certain things.

I am human.

I was born that way.

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