Jul-13-2010
A slow birthing of “Sanctified: A Memoir”
A few days after my birth in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, my parents drove 27 miles south and east to Grady, the town where Mama grew up in the Mississippi Delta. I weighed 8 pounds and 6 ounces and was 21 inches long, tall for a newborn back in 1966. Mama pulled the sheet back and presented me to her mother, Madea: “Most women have a pretty baby, but girl you sho have brought home an ugly ass child. He looks like a little Thimble, doesn’t he?”
This is a tiny excerpt from “Thimble, from Grady” available on a website called Postcard Memoirs.
For the rest of this essay click here http://www.postcardmemoirs.com/post/802626469/thimble-from-grady
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