May 1st 1957

It was 50 degrees in Carrolton the moment I took my first breath of air At 8:40 PM he slapped my ass Dr. Smith said to mom, “well lookie there” It’s a boy to add to your collection of crying kids that will need to be fed Mama took one look and with a big smile “well now I do declare” was all she said That miracle of childbirth set my place as the fourteenth child and the seventh son Forever known as just one of them kids of Arlie and Sylvia Brotherton Now that’s what my birth certificate states but over the next twenty years or such I would swear I had to be switched at birth Cause I didn’t fit in with that crowd much I know there were many times in my life my parents would become true believers that though I looked somewhat like all the rest there was no way I was their son either