Nine
There remain countries... cultures... where being born out of wedlock continues to foster stigma... a burden not to be shorn but only to be endured. And such burden is never to be shucked by those spawned amongst the very young and the drunk and the drug befuddled.
Yes, Thomas, my parents were teens at the time that the male sperm inseminated the female egg. Narcotic induced lust resulted in a birth met with sadness and remorse, not the glee of procreation, the cultivation of life.
Iceland... it can be cold beyond the climate... particularly when one is helpless amongst those who would deny your existence. Parents, my grandparents would not admit that the drug hazed fog of their children could give rise to a lifelong mistake between teenaged daughter and neighborhood teenaged son.
