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updates from the last post are as follows: that pictures of my grandparents is probably from about the time my grandparents got engaged (they were engaged for 3 YEARS). my mother denies any memory of the proposed nick name of "Shelly" ok, so, now on to childhood........ from the time i was born until the day i got married, i changed permanent location 23 times. no, that's not a typo. so i tend to remember my childhood in terms of location. sometimes i get the order mixed up a little, especially from the earlier years. Let's start in Chicago. Chicago is where i was born. And it is my understanding that it took less than a year for my parents to decide to escape the big dirty city and find someplace else to live. And i know that the first 4 or so years of my life were spent in Grants, New Mexico; Seattle, Washington; and Houston, Texas. I think the order was Chicago, New Mexico, Houston, Seattle, then back to Houston. Here's what i actually remember: In 1979, i was

Please keep in mind that most the stories i've told thus far are just as i've heard them---or as i remember hearing them. Obviously i wasn't there. So this entry is new because i actually get to join the story this time. My parents were married on September 22, 1973. I was born on September 18, 1975. I was a pretty big baby--9 lbs 1/2 oz. And that was sort of the old days in that the doctor didn't have sophisticated means of determining the gender of the baby, so he told my parents right up until the day of my birth that i was going to be a boy. He could tell that by my broad shoulders. ha! fooled him. Then when i was born, he told my parents that they should name me Bertha....since i was so big. I don't think that was very nice. I know that my dad prayed for a "little girl just like her mom." And i was a little girl--just like her mom---well, not so much. But i really like my mom if that counts. =) They named me (in case you thought you knew my name but r