Mom and I had stopped for a few to watch the waves and looked for seashells . Mom had gone down to the beach to look for shells in the sand . I stayed up top. A man, who was clearly in tears, was sitting at a picnic table near by. He stood up, walked over to me with just a towel over his shoulders and shorts on. He looked at me with heavy tears in his blue eyes and said hello. I said hey buddy. He then asked me "What is wrong with you? I told him I had a birth defect called