Post #166 – Women’s Memoirs, ScrapMoir – Matilda Butler and Kendra Bonnett
July 2011 Memoir Contest – Honorable Mention Story
Women’s Memoirs is pleased to publish You Can’t Have Two Birthdays by Carole Jones. Carole’s story earned an Honorable Mention in our Fourth of July Category from our July Memoir Writing Contest. Congratulations Carole for sharing your story with us.
Memoir Contest Honorable Mention
YOU CAN’T HAVE TWO BIRTHDAYS
Carole Jones
“Mama, please push. Take a big breath and push again and again. Mama, don’t you want to meet me? Don’t you want to see if I am the baby girl you have been praying for? Come on Mama, look at the clock. It’s now 11:58 pm on July 4th! Mama, don’t you want to have a baby on the 4th of July? Maybe you will be famous and get your name in the newspaper for delivering a ‘fire-cracker’ baby.”
“Oh no Mama, I know you tried your best, but it is now 12:05 a.m. on July 5th when your very last push delivered me into the waiting arms of the doctor, and then I [click to continue…]
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