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Dear readers, this isn't a story about Knights in Shining armor nor a story about a couple falling in love. This is a tale of a Wandering Man who through no fault of his own, finding himself in strange situations not of his doing.
The tale begins long ago when his mother was going through contractions. Being a small town, there was no hospitals, only mid-wives. The nearest hospital was 10 miles away on another island. Her dad got excited and told oldest daughter "Go get Mabel!" For Mabel was the mid-wife in town. Very trusted as she helped deliver half the town. Which is to say, she was ancient and well traveled. Roberta, having been delivered by Mabel 16 years ago got really upset. "No! I don't want Mabel to mid-wife my baby! She's the Crypt Keeper! My baby will be born in a hospital, damn it!"
Roberta, being very stubborn, has set her foot down. She will not deliver the baby in the small village by a mid-wife. She made her older brother-in-law convince the bush pilot to fly 10 miles in the middle of a snow storm. Now for those foreign to transportation in Southeast Alaska. Two modes of travel. By boat or airplane. Now planes in southeast are equipped with patoons. Being seaplanes, they can crash & sink if they hit a floating log. So, flying in middle of winter, in a snow storm is very dicey.
Let's just say Roberta's brother-in-law is very convincing. But it took some convincing and the birthing was well under way.
The flight was uneventful, with the occasional contraction and both brother-in-law & pilot becoming concerned "Don't have the baby right now!" as if that had any effect. Having "landed" they docked the plane and going up the elevator when the first serious contraction occurred, they said "Don't have the baby here! We're almost to the hospital!" But seeing how Mother Nature and women have their own agenda, they rarely listen to the men-folk. Roberta was clad in a dress, for easier birthing. Being young and first child, she figured it would be best. Now, apparently "we're almost to the hospital!" was the key word for Wandering Man made his appearnce in this world. The pilot somewhat experienced in delivering, this was his first human being. Normally, it is dead animals and people able to walk on their own. Other than being born on elevator lift heading to the hospital. The birth was uneventful. The new mother & child made it to hospital safely. And that is how Wandering Man made his entrance into this world.
