It was my 13th birthday and a Friday...just like today.
They let us out of school early but didn’t tell us why.
A lot of the women teachers were crying as we were dismissed and left out the door. I got home to find what was supposed to be my birthday cake laying on the kitchen floor in front of the stove. I found my mother hunched over/laying on the living room floor in front of the TV balling her eyes out.
I’ll never forget it...
Wow.