known him all my life. A month later, he got down on one knee and
proposed. He wasn’t planning to, it was an irresistible impulse of the
moment. He was actually reaching for a jar of jam, but ever one to
avoid getting in a pickle, he asked for my hand and our relationship was
preserved. It was strawberry, if I recall.”
A year after they got married, they were blessed with a beautiful
baby boy. I was born on the 14th of May, the same date that the
famous Salem witch trials began in the United States, just 297 years
earlier.