Missouri Twelve - Text
Caucasian female, born 1974 in Odessa, MO. Recalls the circumstances surrounding her birth. Reads The Rainbow Passage. Recorded by Louis Colaianni, 3-16-01 and edited by Shawn M. Muller. Recording length 00:01:35.
TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH
And I was born in Lexington, Missouri which is about thirty miles from where we actually lived in Odessa, Missouri and there was no hospital in Odessa so when my mother went into labor, they had to drive for thirty miles and my mom had already had, well I’m the youngest of six kids, so I was the last of the Mohicans and so by the time she got to the hospital she was exhausted after having to take care of all the other kids all day–so they ended up having to, uh, stop her labor while she was pregnant with me, while she was having me and, uh, let her rest because she couldn’t do it–she was too tired and, uh, so I took her two days in labor to get me out. I was stubborn. I didn’t want to come out. And so, uh, I was the only baby born in the hospital at the time so I was very spoiled and , uh, there wasn’t another baby for, oh, two days after I was born.
UNSCRIPTED SPEECH TRANSCRIBED BY PHIL HUBBARD 6 AUGUST, 2008