This life analysis is based on an interview with RL, a 72-year-old male that lives in a single family dwelling with his son and grandchildren. RL consented to this interview and the interviewer assured RL that his privacy will be maintained. He was an unplanned pregnancy and was born in Boston, Massachusetts to a single African American female. His father, whom he has never met, was of Italian decent. At six months of age, RL was abandoned by his mother at a daycare facility and was informally adopted by an African American female with four other children. At the age of ten, RL’s adopted mother suddenly died and RL was informed of his mixed race and adoption status by a sibling after the funeral. During the second decade of his life,
