IT'S MY TURN NOW, ABE'S WAS THURSDAY

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Can't believe it, I'm 71 today.
Here is my story, I was born 71 years ago today. My baby book does not list the time, only that I came into the world two months early weighing in at 4 1/2 pounds, 18 inches long. According to my baby book, it sounds as though I wasn't fast cutting teeth, crawling, walking or talking. But hey, I did finally accomplish it. I was born to a child, my Mother did not turn 14 until I was two months old. And my poor Mom has worked all of her life, every since I was born, taking care of someone. What kind of childhood did she have? I love my Mom so much. Where was her Mother, but then, according to everything I have heard, my Grandmother was 15 when she had her first child. Believe me, when I was almost 20 before I had ours, I felt out of place. Just joking of course. I can't imagine anything worse then a child having a baby.

But here I am! I was also looking through my baby book, that doesn't have a whole lot of things in it, but it does show my weight and height until I was 4 years old. At six months I was 9 1/2 pounds and 26 inches long, at one year 18 1/2 pounds and 29 inches tall. How accurate any of these numbers are I don't know.

The day I was born, at home, my Aunt told me their old cat was also having kittens. So she was busy running from the bedroom to the kitchen. It was a chilly day, so after they got me all cleaned up, I've been told, they made me a bed in a large shoe box and sit the box on the oven door (standing open of course) of the old kitchen cook stove. I don't know, but I can only assume this is true. And now we all know what my problem is, THEY DIDN'T TURN ME OFTEN ENOUGH AND I'M ONLY HALF BAKED. Everyone have a great week-end.

This is me at nine months.





Pat Lincoln

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