				october 19th 1979

3:00 - 4:00 ... i don't know am or pm

			a life began

		two lives were changed

my mother is Beverley Ann McDonald (nee Yeadon)

my father is James Stuart McDonald

	   i am named jesse alexander

i think jesse means love of God or something

	alexander?  i don't know.

		i have lived these eighteen small years

   i have had my experiences

i live.  we all do.


				IT FEELS SO STRANGE TO GROW
	     am i a man now?