A special delivery from the stork results in my first newspaper mention.

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I was born at Arlington Memorial Hospital in April 1983. It was a Tuesday night, about 8:00 PM. That’s all I know.

My parents lived in Mansfield, which, in 1980, had a whopping population of about 8,100. The town didn’t have a hospital, so if you lived there and wanted your kids to be born somewhere besides a manger, you had to hit the road, with Arlington Memorial Hospital being one of the closest ones.

The newspaper clipping was part of a larger listing (shown below) announcing other births and local news. I know a few others mentioned, and I went to school with them.

My birth announcement
Mansfield News-Mirror | Mansfield, Texas
April 28, 1983
Newspapers.com

Other birth announcements and misc town news
Mansfield News-Mirror | Mansfield, Texas
April 28, 1983
Newspapers.com

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Blog post by Jason S. Sullivan, 04-12-25