It’s got to be strange to be adopted.  There’s the mystery of who your real parents are versus the reality of who raised you and who you consider to be your parent.  I have a good friend who was adopted as a baby, and while she’s interested in knowing just who her parents are, she’s hesitant to seek them out.  After reading about Matthew Roberts, a Los Angeles DJ who was adopted as a baby, I can see why.  After all, Roberts found out he’s the son of Charles Manson.

Roberts, 41, started investigating his parentage 12 years ago.  He had comparatively little trouble tracking down his biological mother Terry, but she wasn’t forthcoming about the identity of his father, or what his last name at birth was.   Turns out, in 1967, she took off for San Francisco with Charles Manson, and Uncle Charlie fathered her son during a drug-fueled rape orgy.  On March 22, 1968, the baby that would become Matthew was born.

There’s an eerie resemblance between the two of them, physically.  Like Manson, Roberts is also a poet and musician, in addition to being a DJ.  Fortunately for Roberts, he doesn’t share his father’s most famous proclivity.  Says Roberts, “My hero is Gandhi. I’m an extremely non-violent, peaceful person and a vegetarian.  I don’t even kill bugs.  I’ve had long hair all my life.  I could make it go away, but I can’t let the world and their fears change me.”

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