
“I’ve got it-MICHAEL.”īy then I was used to seeing my babies born with funny looking heads, so I wasn’t alarmed by Michael’s. Shortly after I got there, I began having contractions. I called my mother and she and my stepfather drove me to Mercy Hospital. “Girl, don’t worry about it,” Mildred said, turning the car around.Īt my request Mildred drove me home. “Oh, my God, Mildred, I can’t sit in your car like this!” I exclaimed. I remember that day well because my water broke while my neighbor Mildred White and I were driving over to see the new grammar school under construction, Garnett Elementary. The following year (1958) August 29, I gave birth to another son. (.) My experience with Marlon and Brandon didn’t dissuade me from getting pregnant again. "I remember going to the record studio and there was a park across the street and I'd see all the children playing and I would cry because it would make me sad that I would have to work instead." "I remember one time we were getting ready to go to South America and everything was packed up and in the car ready to go and I hid and I was crying because I really did not want to go, I wanted to play. "Well, you don't get to do things that other children get to do, having friends and slumber parties and buddies. "Well, especially now I come to realize - and then - I would do my schooling which was three hours with a tutor and right after that I would go to the recording studio and record, and I'd record for hours and hours until it's time to go to sleep."


"'There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I was, used to always cry from loneliness."
