I celebrated my 81st birthday on September 21, 2020, and am truly blessed to be here. I truly believe I am not the only person in the world with this unusual life, but I want the outside world to know of my Phoebes, so enjoy snippets of my life as I recall these memoirs. My Beginning In 1939, Black women were not allowed to have babies in hospitals, so I was born at a home re-built into a maternity ward for mothers of color in the Charlotte area of North Carolina. My first Ph