Wow, what an odd karma i have, Tecumshe elem, huh?  The picture of myself i took is very much like the 41 year old man in Belfast.  Close to my age, like my brother's and fake dad's middle name

Kelly was born on November 18, 1970, in Champaign, Illinois,^[11][4] to Edward Francis Kelly, Ed.D.,^[12] who taught in the School of Education at the State University of New York at Albany, and Linda (née DeMaio), a homemaker.^[13] She grew up with an older sister, Suzanne (1964–2022) and an older brother, Pete (born c. 1965).^[14] She is of Italian and German descent on her mother's side and Irish descent on her father's.^[13] She was raised Catholic.^[15] Her father died of a heart attack in 1985 when she was 15 years old.^[16][17] She also has a step-sister and a step-brother from her mother's second marriage, to Peter Kirwan.^[18]

Kelly attended Tecumseh Elementary School in suburban Syracuse, New York. When she was nine, her family moved to Delmar, New York, a suburb of Albany,^[19][4] where she attended Bethlehem Central High School.^[20] After high school, she studied political science at Syracuse University, graduating in 1992 with a Bachelor of Arts.^[13][21] She then attended Albany Law School, where she was an editor of the Albany Law Review.^[22] She graduated in 1995 with a Juris Doctor.^[23]