Factual results - nurturing determines your destiny

What you learn or do today ........ depends on what you learned or did yesterday, ........... and will determine what you learn or do tomorrow.

From the day they are born, all people are a "work in progress" and their nurturing determines how each one progresses.

The following is factual testimony that provides truth of the above, to wit:

Several months ago, forensic anthropologist Robert Mann discovered a strange message on his answering machine. It said something like, "Hello, I don't know how to tell you this, but my name is Emma, and I'm your sister."

Dr. Mann, the deputy scientific director of the federal Central Identification Laboratory in Hawaii, is used to mysteries. He's a medical detective who literally reads the bones of the dead. He has helped return names to unknown soldiers and helped identity the work of murderers.

Mann, 59, has written several books, including "Forensic Detective," which details some of the many cases he's helped solve over the years, but Mann has lived with a mystery of his own for decades.

"It's a lot to get used to," he said by phone from his office in Hawaii. "You go through your life thinking there's just you - then you find out you have nine brothers and sisters."

Robert Mann was born Robert Dean Churchwell in 1948. He was the sixth child of Mingo County coal miner William Churchwell and his wife, Alice.

In 1951, the Churchwells split. Alice took three of the couple's seven children, including 2-year-old Robert, and fled to Florida. The rest remained with relatives. She filed for divorce, then put the children up for adoption.

To read what happened to Robert Mann's (Robert Dean Churchwell) six (6) other brothers and sisters ......... and half-brothers and sisters, click on this link, to wit:

http://www.sundaygazettemail.com/News/200803220472

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