Monday, August 18, 1980

My First Breath

Nine months and three days later, out pops Damon. Originally named Damon Scott Jenkins to match his grandmother's initials DSJ.

Pops didn't show up because he didn't believe the kid was his ...

Somewhere in the next 48 hours, Pops' parents show up at the hospital where Pops moms makes a decleration to her husband Mr. Smith Sr.

"Lee, if this child isn't your son's, then he is yours and you've got some explaining to do," she said.

(Little did we know that this, look-a-like system of denoting fatherhood, would keep the Maury Povich Show in business 25 years later.)

At some point, Pops claims his son. Damon Scott Smith is alive and kicking.

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