Due Date: March 17, 2003

"St. Patrick's Day - LUCK"

The luckiest day of my life happened when I was about 16 years old. My mother had awakened us around 3:00 AM one morning to alert us that the two-story brownstone that we were living in was on fire. We occupied the second floor, and the fire started on the first. Our downstairs neighbors were not home at the time.

The house was full of smoke and the electricity was off by the time my mom got us all up. We searched around in darkness for something to quickly throw on while my dad checked on a way for us to exit the brownstone. We had no choice, we had to jump get out through one of the windows because the fire was at the door that we needed to exit from. Luckily, people heard our yells and caught us as my father dropped us down to safety from a bedroom window.

We were lucky that night in so many ways. Actually, I’m not sure if it was luck or more God’s doing, but either way, we’re happy that we made it through that night.

Until next time!