My unusual date of birth has invited a lifetime of sympathetic sighs from strangers, but I wouldn’t trade it for any other day of the year
Walter and his older brother Bill at Christmas in 1993very now and then, as I hand over my driver’s licence to check into a motel, register for a PCR test or call my bank to confirm that yes, the activity flagged as fraud was in fact my own embarrassing purchase, I disclose personal information that elicits a familiar tone of sympathy and amusement from perfect strangers.
Far from traumatised, my brother remembers it being a pretty good day: he got to play in the living room of some random family’s house, just a few hundred metres from the hospital, while our ropable Dad swapped insurance details outside. Shepherds quaked at the sight!
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