My Father Died Young. His Sisters Kept Me From Losing Him Entirely February 2, 2021 My father was the oldest — and only boy — of five children born in rapid succession in the 1950s. By the time his youngest sibling was due, he begged his mother not to deliver at Peck Memorial Hospital in Brooklyn: “Don’t go to Peck’s — they only give out girls!” I first heard this story at my father’s funeral, when my aunt Joan gave the eulogy. I was just 14. It was a preview of how my aunts would tether me back to what I had lost.Read the full article here. About Prostate Cancer Prostate Cancer News More for you
My father was the oldest — and only boy — of five children born in rapid succession in the 1950s. By the time his youngest sibling was due, he begged his mother not to deliver at Peck Memorial Hospital in Brooklyn: “Don’t go to Peck’s — they only give out girls!” I first heard this story at my father’s funeral, when my aunt Joan gave the eulogy. I was just 14. It was a preview of how my aunts would tether me back to what I had lost.Read the full article here.
