Previous posts for May 14 may be found here: Otto Klemperer (2019), Lou Harrison (2020), and Lou Harrison (2021)
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Bobby Darin (14 May 1936 – 20 December 1973) was an American singer, musician, and actor.
Family Drama
When he was thirty two, he discovered the woman who had raised him was his grandmother, not his mother as he thought, and learned that the woman he thought was his sister was actually his mother. Those events deeply affected Darin and sent him into a long period of seclusion. – adapted from Wikipedia
Bobby Darin’s family story
Isn’t for the faint of heart.
He was thirty-two before he
Learned the truth about his start.
He had, he thought, an older sister,
Who, it turned out, was his mother,
His mother’s mother, to assist her,
Had raised him as the younger brother.
It all seems oddly operatic,
Or something from the Grand Guignol,
But family secrets in the attic
Are something that we can’t control.
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