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NewsNation anchor Leland Vittert opens up about his childhood in a new memoir

In Born Lucky: A Dedicated Father, A Grateful Son, and My Journey with Autism , he credits his father with helping him become the man he is today

Born Lucky is on sale now, wherever books are sold

When Leland Vittert was born, his umbilical cord had wrapped around his neck and knotted twice. Had his mother not delivered him via cesarean section, he could have died, prompting the doctor to nickname him Lucky. It would mark the only time his parents would allow a doctor to label him.

In his new book, Born Lucky: A Dedicated Father, A Grateful Son, and My Journey with Autism (out Sept. 30) Leland, 43, recounts showing signs of what we now recognize as autism from a young age and his fath

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