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Birthday Clustering
Yesterday my glorious daughter turned 5. Today my radiant son turned 10. In the maternity ward five years ago I quipped to the nurses, "The kids being born one day apart, I suppose I'm only fertile for one week each...
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Posted on: July 28, 2008 5:35 PM, by Martin R
Yesterday my glorious daughter turned 5. Today my radiant son turned 10. In the maternity ward five years ago I quipped to the nurses, "The kids being born one day apart, I suppose I'm only fertile for one week each year".
Replied one of them, "I think you're probably only romantic for one week each year."
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Comments
Hahaha, so which is it?
Posted by: barbara huffert | July 28, 2008 5:58 PM
in the case of my parents, it was generally a cold snap before the heat went on in the fall... all of us were born in july too.
Posted by: peter | July 28, 2008 7:26 PM
Last week you were assuring us you were romantic a couple times a week!
Posted by: Patrick | July 28, 2008 8:16 PM
The nurse was of course just making a sour-grapes comment, and under the circumstances I had little opportunity to show her where things really stood. (-;
Posted by: Martin R | July 29, 2008 2:57 AM
Belated congratulations to the young and bright ones. I must remember to wear my welding goggles when I meet them next week.
Posted by: kai | July 29, 2008 9:12 AM
Thank you! Having met and been impressed by your kids, I have become suspicious. Kai, are you the biological father of my kids too? Or am I the unwitting progenitor of yours?
Posted by: Martin R | July 29, 2008 10:05 AM
When the Only-begotten son was small, he seemed a mix of my brother and the mother's sister, so we wondered whether he was our child at all…
Posted by: kai | July 29, 2008 11:22 AM
How do you expain it when there's clustering across generations? In my family it's in January. There's a cousin on the 21st, sister 22nd, another cousin 25th, my younger daughter on the 28th, my mother on the 30th and son the 31st.
Posted by: eleanora | July 30, 2008 6:25 AM
Synchronised jail time after family-organised robberies?
Posted by: Martin R | July 30, 2008 12:35 PM