There was a battle for my soul that warm October day in 1939. It was a spiritual battle for my destiny, good versus evil. The weather that twenty-first day was unusually warm, and by the time of my birth at 5 p.m., the thunderstorms were strong, with lightning shooting across the heavens.
Another unusual detail of my birth was I was born with a "veil" over my head. I would later find my superstitious family believed this to be significant...