He was born by lamplight in the 1930s. The doctor and midwife thought he was stillborn,and he was almost “cremated”. His parents never knew he had been born.
Why? An act of kindness reasoned the doctor. His parents did, after all, have the surviving twin.Fate intervened and the only person that knew he was alive kept him as her own despite one complication. He was white. The midwife was not.