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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo tonight's my Bday
It's actually 15 seconds after midnight
I enjoy telling folks the anecdote that it was before women's lib, so they asked my DAD...."you want a tax deduction or a new year's baby?"
he said "hell yeah, new years baby"...while my mom is screaming on the gurney!
so they supposedly held her knees together till midnight
...and that's my 15 seconds of fame....
My wish for us all is an end to the crazy we have taken as reality <3
BigmanPigman
(51,674 posts)my dad always said that her dad somehow managed to arrange it for a tax deduction.
Lithos
(26,404 posts)So I must have been nicer than your parents
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PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,930 posts)That's why Rosemary Kennedy was born brain damaged.
My mother once said that when one of us kids was being born and a nurse told her to hold her knees together until the doctor got there, mom said in effect, "Fuck that" because she was herself a nurse and understood the physiology of birth.
You don't try to stop the inevitable.
FirstLight
(13,368 posts)I did some holotropic breathwork...also known as re-birthing....there's definitely a connection to being stuck in that place and how it affects you...claustrophobia, ptsd, etc...
I found out later it wasn't all fun & games...they put a clamp on her belly too....
but regardless...I'm Babay New Year, Bitches!!!!!!
Cha
(298,112 posts)Raine
(30,547 posts)lillypaddle
(9,581 posts)and a happy New year, too.
FirstLight
(13,368 posts)teens went to bed early, I'm smokng on the deck listening to the fireworks, etc....
FirstLight
(13,368 posts)another year older...wiser...? maybe?
RestoreAmerica2020
(3,439 posts)akraven
(1,975 posts)LOL! Terrific story.... thanks!
And happiest New Year!
FirstLight
(13,368 posts)so 49 yrs I got nothing, no seeds of wisdom...
Just keep swimming ;
malaise
(269,340 posts)and Happy New Year
2naSalit
(86,984 posts)Interesting story! I was born in a car on a bridge, not as great with the timing!
FirstLight
(13,368 posts)I had a newspaper clip I showed for school,,,I can't imagine your story!
littlemissmartypants
(22,875 posts)Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)calimary
(81,610 posts)He would have been 102. We had our differences but Ive always been glad he didnt live to see the 9/11 attacks. He barely lived to see all the Millennium celebrations. Just as well.