Yes. It is true according to my grandmother (here after called Nonnie because that's what I called her.) I was born a bastard child.
She made sure to tell me. Since my mother conceived me on a couch in Wooster, Ohio before my would-be dad returned home to his wife and two children, I never met him.
To keep folks at home from knowing my mother had a child "out of wedlock" my grandmother chose Cedar Rapids, Iowa from the map and I was born there.
It's amazing that I am still alive at 77. No one knows why.
