My papa, Aubrey was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama on July 26, 1973 to father
Burchard Jardine, and mother Daphne Smolak. Smolak was her maiden name,
which means that that’s what her name was before she was married. She was a
schoolteacher, and he worked in a factory. They were on their way back from
a trip to Alabama when his mom gave birth at a hospital. It was about a
month before papa was supposed to be born, so he was very small, and a
little sick. He had to stay in the hospital for 11 days before the doctors
said that he was healthy enough to leave and go home. He wasn’t able to
breathe on his own, so they put him in a plastic box, and hooked him up to
all these machines. They were also worried that he would get really sick, so
they had to watch him all the time. My grandparents were sad and scared, but
they prayed, and knew that he would get better, and he did. While they were
there, papa’s dad lost his job at the factory, because he was supposed to be
back at work on Monday, and his boss wasn’t very nice about it. It was the
summertime, so my grandma didn’t lose her job. It was fine. Since he was
just a baby, papa doesn’t even remember being in Alabama, but he went back
when he was older to meet the doctor who delivered him. The doctor was very
old by then, but he was still alive! He is not anymore, or he would be over
100 years old! My papa was 50 when he died, which is very young to die.
Anyway, when papa was better, his parents left Alabama, and drove back to
where they lived, which was Montana. It’s really far away, so it took them
three days of driving. I bet they were pretty tired.
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