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“November’s Children”
By Kerry Madden


Our son, Flannery, was born on Election Day, November 8, 1988 – the day George Bush Senior was elected into office. He was two and a half weeks overdue, and if I’d known he was going to be so late, I would have voted absentee.

But since I had him at the Natural Childbirth Institute in Culver City, I also had this idea that if it came right down to it, I could vote on the way home from birth. That’s what I told people anyway when they asked, “What i… Continue