“You don’t have a baby here, you have a funeral expense.” That’s what the doctor said about recently deceased actor Earl Holliman to his parents upon seeing the baby they’d just adopted. The adoption was from a mother who already had nine other children to look after. Holliman’s biological mother was overwhelmed, and had no husband to share the burden with. Holliman’s biological father died before he was born.
To say Holliman came into the world relatively disadvantaged is a bit of an understatement, but birth in the United States is its own advantage.
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