I am the youngest of three brothers.
My mother had my oldest brother when she was 17, me when she
was 20.
My brothers and I were high energy to put it nicely, but
Hellions is a lot more honest. In fact
there were a lot of people back in the late 50’s and early 60’s (and mid-and
late 60’s and into the 70’s if truth be told) that tried to get mom to drug us
boys down so that we were a little more manageable. Bless her, mom always just responded with “Their
just full blooded boys” and let us exercise and run it off.
Anyway, one day when I was in the 8th grade or
so, I got to wondering if my mother had wanted to have a daughter to share all
those girl things with. So I decided to
ask her. The conversation went a bit
like this:
“Hey mom, did you ever want to have a daughter?”
She looked me very deliberately straight and level in the
eyes and said; “Yep”.
Now I may have been born at night, but it wasn’t the night
before, so it didn’t take me long to realize that she had intended me to be a
girl….Now there was a truly frightening thought.
But I am if nothing else prepared to see
things through, so…..I thought about it and said; “Oh, I see, well why didn’t
you try again?”
She looked me straight in the eyes again and quietly said:
“Cause I ain’t dumb enough to risk having 4 boys”.
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