Origin: the Estonian father Bulat; jaw broken, abandoned before birth

pivotal · ~B.S. 1981, birth

• When: around Gately's birth (father left "when Gately was in his mother's stomach"); ~B.S. 1981 by inference from age 27 in YDPAH
• What: Gately's "organic father" was an Estonian immigrant wrought-iron worker named Bulat, a name Gately learned only from a Scotch-taped paper in his mother's jewelry box after her cirrhotic hemorrhage (event 9). Bulat broke Gately's mother's jaw and left Boston while Gately was still in his mother's stomach; Gately had no siblings. His mother's maiden name was Gately; she drank Stolichnaya with cut-up vegetables suspended in it, a habit picked up from the missing Estonian.