Just another Thursday evening around 7:05PM, when a tinny baby girl was born to Alvoye J. Pride Jr. and Eileen Mary McDermott-Pride. After much discussion, they named her Bridgett Kathryn Pride. Bridgett, because she is one of the patron saints of Ireland, as well as Eileen’s childhood best friend, Kathryn because that is Alvoye’s grandmother’s name and Pride, because Alvoye’s ancestors were proud to be slaves before they were set free.
The fussy Leo had dark skin and a full head of hair and had no idea of what the world would have waiting for her. She did not yet know that she would share her birthday with the fictional character of Harry Potter, or that the headline of her local paper, The Daily Bulletin, would read “Drug War Prepared”. Or that the thought of the day was “the laws sometimes sleep, but never die” which was a legal maxim.
Little Bridgett slept after a fight for her life, getting stuck and pulled out of her mother after hours of labor. She slept, did not die and was preparing herself for the war of life.
1 comment:
Bridgett,
That description, imagined of course, of the birth could be very powerful. That reluctance to come into the world, to put up a fight, might play nicely into your research. Push that connection!
Brent
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