From the thirteenth chapter of the Gospel of Mark, “Jesus said to his disciples, “For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; there will be earthquakes in various places; there will be famines. This is but the beginning of the birth pangs” (13:8). On the afternoon of March 17, 1959, my pregnant mother realized that she needed to get to the hospital, and soon. She was not inexperienced in these matters. This was her sixth child.
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