Heredity

I know a middle-aged person who was adopted. Recently s/he tracked down the birth mother, from whom s/he learned that the father was a celebrity, now deceased. This knowledge has completely changed this person. Suddenly s/he sees a future as wealthy and famous. This might be reasonable if the celebrity were Elvis – but this is a lower echelon celebrity who fathered lots of illegitimate children according to his autobiography. It's hard to see how the person will get any financial gain, though s/he can gain notoriety. But to whose benefit? Unfortunately the person has begun acting like royalty to family and friends, as if the world were about to bestow its riches to this chosen, if illegitimate, offspring of celebrity.

All this is bizarre, comic, and sad to witness.