Into this world like a killer storm  − 25 March, 1977

I was born on this date in Monroe, LA. The day I was to come home from the hospital was a stormy one. My mother decided she was perfectly fine and was ready to leave the hospital with me, but the doctor cautioned her against it as it was getting very stormy out. She went home anyway and our neighborhood was hit by a tornado. There was complete devastation to every house to the left, right and front of us...but not to ours. For some reason we had been spared. Something out there was looking out for me. What a way to come into the world!