FIFTY

Fifty years ago today, a young couple, awoke very early.  He was 23, she was 21.  They had been to a drive-in movie the night before with their two children, who were 2 1/2 and 14 months old.  The last thing the husband said to his wife was, "please don't have the baby tonight, because we don't have any gas in the car."  Naturally, the baby decided to make her arrival that next morning.  This was back in the day when gas stations and stores were not open 24 hours a day.

On March 13, 1962, around 7 in the morning, she was born.  An intern attended the birth, asking the mother if this was her first birth.  Relieved when she answered no, he responded, "oh good...because this is MY first delivery."  Somewhere in the world, there is a doctor, who remembers his first delivery-and it was me.