my dad always said that her dad somehow managed to arrange it for a tax deduction.

So I must have been nicer than your parents

L-

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.

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!!!!!!

and a happy New year, too.

teens went to bed early, I'm smokng on the deck listening to the fireworks, etc....

another year older...wiser...? maybe?

LOL! Terrific story.... thanks!

And happiest New Year!

so 49 yrs I got nothing, no seeds of wisdom...

Just keep swimming ;

and Happy New Year

Interesting story! I was born in a car on a bridge, not as great with the timing!

I had a newspaper clip I showed for school,,,I can't imagine your story!

He would have been 102. We had our differences but I’ve always been glad he didn’t live to see the 9/11 attacks. He barely lived to see all the Millennium celebrations. Just as well.