Marathon 1969

Yes, they told her they will induce our baby.It was the high blood pressure, it seems I skipped out of work early at twelve. The maternity unit was just up the road. She sat on a table, legs swinging over the edge. ‘That’s it, no more after this one’. She looked shattered, as if she’d run a marathon. I peeked at our new arrival, she was fine.I left my lunch break, you see. She says now, each confinement was easy. It seemed different at the time that summer, Neil Armstrong made his ‘giant leap for mankind’ we did too.