Sunday

Birth Certificate

During her entire lifetime she thought that she did not have a birth certificate. She used a letter signed by her aunts who stated they were present at her birth for proof of birth. I found her birth certificate in the Arizona State Vital Records [NOT New Mexico]. She was not given a name or it was filed without her name as she was not expected to live through the night. Her Mother often told her how her Father put her up on his shoulder and kept her there all night long so that she could breathe. Not only did she prove the doctor wrong but she lived to be almost 95 years old!

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