This is a masterfully told story, @stormlight24. I think it is the best one I have read of yours yet!

I love the description of when the narrator is fading in and out of consciousness. That is so hard to do. But you captured that fleeting sense of what is happening, mixed with a dream state.

And wow — waking to overhear a conversation that enlightens him as to his true father and his future — what a great twist!