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TODAY...is April 7....one
day before my daughter, Kristin's birthday.
Each year I call and also email
Kristin the story of her birth.
I was inspired by Billy Crystal's
real-life-mom's early morning birthday calls to her son. Billy featured his mom's birthday calls in the movie, City Slickers.
Here's my birthday letter to my firstborn this year.
April 7,
2015
Kristin,
(With THANKS
to City Slickers movie dialogue that inspired my annual pre-birthday
phone call/email.)
You will be 516 months old tomorrow, April 8, 2015.
I remember the
day before you were born: April 7, 1972.
My water
broke in the early morning while I was still in bed.
The next
door neighbors (Jennie and Ray) at the townhouse heard me yelling through the
thin walls - before your dad woke up. He thought I wet the bed.
The doctor's
office advised me to stay at home.
My mom,
(Mema) came over, and so did Granny Lucille.
Mema cleaned
our townhouse.
Granny
Lucille made pies.
That's just
what they did.
Twenty-four
hours later - I went to the hospital.
My regular
OB was out of town, and a horrible doctor took his place. Even the nurses
didn't like him.
Your head
came out while the doctor was hiding out in the doctor's lounge.
Mema banged
on the door of the doctor's lounge, and warned him: "If you don't
come out and deliver my first grandchild - then I'll do it, and send you the
bill."
It was too
late for the epideral.
Your dad
almost missed your birth when he went home to feed the cat, Billy Jack.
You were
born April 8, 1972 - totally bald - with the Norwood nose.
I wondered
how I carried you for nine months, and you came out looking like his side of
the family.
I fell in
love with you immediately.
You will be
43 years old tomorrow, April 8, 2015 - and you are a wife and mother, but you
will always be my little girl.
I love you,
Mom
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| 1972. Baby Kristin and Marcia. Copyright 1972 Marcia Norwood |
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| 1976. Kristin and Marcia. Copyright 1976 Marcia Norwood |
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| 1994. Kristin & Marcia. Copyright 1994 Marcia Norwood |
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Mary Marcia
America's STORYTELLER
Telling Untold Stories in Photographs, Prose and Public Speaking
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