My potential was born into this universe on August 20. 1974, in the city of Saginaw, Michigan. My memories of this and the following several years are a bit hazy, but I will relate the facts as they have been related to me.
After I was born, for a month or two or three, my parents lived with my paternal grandparents, Robert and Dorothy Rice, in Saginaw. My father then got a job opportunity down in Florida and my parents moved down to Homestead, Florida.
I think it is fair to say that we were a lower middle-class family. Both my parents had attended a year of college, so neither had degrees. They both came from middle-class families, but there were no pesky trust funds that anyone needed to deal with. We did not last long as a Florida family - the job offer to my father did not work out, so we were all back in Saginaw in a duplex before long.
My earliest memory is from that time in the duplex. I was bitten by a dog. Like I said, my memory is hazy, and at this point, it might as well be something I just I dreamt, but how I remember it was that it was the dog of our duplex neighbors. I was playing with the Fisher-Price farm. Almost everyone from my generation will know exactly the playset I am talking about. It was a little black dog. I had a little scar up by the corner of my eye, but I think the wrinkles have swallowed it up now.