Editor's Note: Welp, here it is Friday morning and I didn't have time to put an open thread together last night, so here's a flashback to an OT I did almost five years ago, back on 10/02/2018, that was titled Roots.

A look at the man little boy behind the curtain, photos included.

By design I've by and large maintained the profile of a mystery man. Today I unmask myself, well, in an erstwhile sense anyway, through the eyes of a little boy growing up in the 50s.

As promised. Here are some photos of me taken just a few short years decades ago. In my family, all males celebrate birthday number two as the Cowboy Suit Birthday. This is my story. The characters are factual, the pictures are authentic and no real animals were harmed in its telling.