Joseph Ben Joseph and Thor

December 13, 1962...

I was born!
Or so I am told.
I have no memory of it.
Dad told me Mom was in labor all night.
Mom told me I was an 11-pound baby.

I'm treating myself to a pumpkin pie.
My sister has given me a $50.00 gift certificate to Applebee's.
She has also given me a $50.00 gift certificate to Olive Garden for X-Mass.
My older brother sends me two hundred dollars a month.
Just because I was born...

My dad thought I was a moron.
But, he always supported me.
Mom loved me!
She thought I was going to be a great artist.
I couldn't draw a straight line.

And I'm still not sure I was born.
I would walk through the house with a handheld mirror.
I wanted to see if the floor lined up with the ceiling.
I also was curious if the rooms exited after I left.
I was five or six years old.

Odd to think that way.
No one suggested it.
But, that is who I am.
My dad tried to teach me Latin...
I failed.

I heard a little girl today talk about God.
She was going to attend a Christmas ceremony.
I didn't learn if she was Catholic.
She said, "Jesus is God and he was born of a woman: Mary!"
I think that is cute...

Mom was in her thirties when she had me.



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