[Narrator's perspective]
Claude, full name Claude Fullpipe, was born July 7th, 1970 in a children's hospital in Sacramento, CA. He was the second child of Timothy Fullpipe and Grace (formerly Updike) Fullpipe.
Unfortunately, Claude had an inflammatory condition in his throat that was noticed shortly after his birth, which made his voice quiet when he came out of the womb wailing. Grace was told by one of the surgeons in the hospital room that Claude would have to undergo an operation to have the inflammatory tissues from his throat removed or else he would have trouble breathing, possibly dying as a result. Grace, after bein