Abstract
I was going to be a grandmother. It had taken all too long. I gave birth to my first child, Warren Dance Jr., when I was only twenty-one, but Warren Jr. was going to be almost thirty-six when his first child was born. As excited as I was, I decided to wait until a week after the July 4, 1995, appearance of my new grand to visit him in Houston, Texas. Other members of the family were going to be there for the birth, and I wanted time to enjoy this baby all by myself, so I planned to arrive after everyone else had left. I convinced myself and announced to my children that my tardiness was dictated by a concern about Taddy having someone there to help her with Yosie after the other visitors had left.
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2009
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Copyright © 2009 University Press of Mississippi. This chapter first appeared in Shaping Memories: Reflections of African American Women Writers.
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Recommended Citation
Dance, Daryl Cumber. "A Birth and a Death, or Everything Important Happens on Monday." In Shaping Memories: Reflections of African American Women Writers, edited by Joanne Veal Gabbin, 138-41. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2009.
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