I was born at 7:33 on a hot August night in the little town O Middle Town Maryland. My mother lived in a huge old house with a number of aunts uncles and kids. Her room was in the huge walk up attic. She had papered the walls in pale yellow with tiny purple violets. She said it made the room look sunny. She and the aunts had been canning vegetables all day so that we would have something to eat in the winter. She was very tired and sweaty from the heat. Around six o'clock she said she didn't feel so good and was going to go lay down for a while. It wasn't long and she was really feeling bad. My Aunt Babe was with her. They sent my sister Ella down the block to fetch the Dr. Things were happening pretty fast by then and Mom was having a very hard time. Guess I wasn't to eager to come in to this rather ugly world. Babe stepped in to help her and pulled me, screaming my head off , in to this world. That was the beginning of my journey on this planet.