I began life as a poor black child … oops, no, that was Steve Martin in the movie “The Jerk“!
I was born Jeffrey Theodore DeMello at 5:16am at Eden Hospital in Castro Valley, CA to Alfred Jules DeMello and Agnes Joan (Weimer) DeMello.
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We lived in Hayward, CA until I was 3, then moved to the home where I grew up (until I was 21) in Pleasant Hill.
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