Almost five years ago, on Fathers Day, my daughter bought an Ancestry DNA kit and took tha leap into the unknown. Being donor conceived, she had always wondered who her biological father was. A DNA kit was the only real way of finding out, so she went for it. My sperm donations were strictly confidential and all she had was a short blurb that I had written down at the clinic in 1989 in Rochester NY. Meanwhile Leslie, her mom Vera and I took Ancestry DNA tests at around the same time but had marked our results private. My niece Roxanne also took the tests but marked her results public. As such Devin got a 25% match with Roxanne and began some expert sleuthing. She was able to look on the family tree that Roxanne had built where she noticed that the next level up from Roxanne had Lisa, Kris and John Olson listed. Devin reached out to Roxanne but she did not know how to respond while keeping my privacy intact. Further exploration on facebook identified that Kristine Olson was now Kristine Ousley and she had a brother, Fritz Leip. So Devin continued to research and found Fritz Leip in a few places. First Fritz Leip on Facebook where she sent a Facebook message that I did not see for a year or so later where I finally found it. Then she found the Fritz the Artist website and the Fritz Leip the Artist instagram page. Eventually she found my aol email and the rest is history. We communicated back and forth and finally met each other in Baltimore MD!
Two different stadiums
Right on the highway
With dive bars at the ready
Golden glove on the Brooks Robinson statue
Very Victorian
Staying at the Indigo
A very busy frame
Of all the gin joints in Baltimore we meet Devon here
A flight of gin!
A most fancy drink!
Fly like a gin flight
Tasty items
Some hot stuff
Some toasty stuff
Another flight!
The proprietor is very persuasive
We sat and talked for three hours
At 8 we had to move to the bar
What a bar it was
Much too much
Time too call it a nigh
A most delightful evening and the first of many meetings to come
It has been 3 years and 315 days since we began our Migration
