Julie Kaye Knudson

Jeremiah was born in Ventura County in the Seventies. Although he would have liked to have been one of the blithe, lithe skaters who tricked and tracked their way through the shady lanes of Silver Strand beach where he grew up, instead he was a thoughtful eccentric. Despite this, he persevered to adulthood. His grandfather, mother, brother, and cousin all committed suicide at various points in his life, which shattered his faith in the Universe's essential goodness and meaningfulness. He swore he'd be the last dude on Earth, outliving all the other remaining members of his family, outliving all the other damned people on the planet, but he feared the grey miasma of meaninglessness and depression would take him eventually. He moved to Portland to pursue a life of hedonistic debauchery and monastic study of avocations like genealogy. And that's where we find ourselves now. His quest is to find his birth father, a man he's never met.* An Ancestry DNA kit gave him the ability to fill out the paternal side of his family tree. Are you the long-lost relative who will give him the essential clue that will lead to the culmination of his quixotic quest? *Found father, turned out to be an abusive white-trash drunk.