On My Father’s Fifty Fifth Birthday He Humiliated Me Before Thirty Guests And By Midnight A Stranger Exposed The Truth Behind My Name

form was not Richard’s. Then the financial records, projected onto the courtroom screen, month by month, year by year, $810 at a time, a ledger of my childhood.

“Mr. Talbet,” Margaret said, “the state paid your household $174,960 in adoption assistance for eighteen years. Can you tell the court how those funds were allocated toward the child’s welfare?continue reading …