Based on a True Story - a photo on Flickriver

            Based on a true story is an exhibit currently at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) in Chicago but it also makes me think of the visceral nonfiction that is part of being alive.  Yet, we are horrible self reporters of our own history.  We remember everything a little wrong and that is why some of us go to great lengths to document each important moment with a camera.  But, sometimes we hear certain stories often enough to convince us we knew exactly what happened as if we were hovering above ourselves as an objective ghost. 

I was born into this world probably without an Apgar score in a small hospital in upstate NY.  No one realized the only doctor on staff had Alzheimer’s Disease until he asked my dad how to deliver me.  My dad then asked this of the floor and didn’t receive an answer.   My mom was planning on having 5 children until I came along and I was told I was “enough!” I spent the first couple of weeks of my life in an incubator too small for me because of a hole in my lung and the hospital actually charged my parents an extra $2,000 even though it was clearly the fault of the doctor.  

Anyway, we humans are born screaming in protest before we could ever fathom crawling or walking and maybe there’s a reason for that.  Some of us don’t ever quiet down.  

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Taken on: March 13, 2022

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