Renee had been on the phone. There was a team with a gurney waiting by the entrance to the emergency room even as we pulled up. Stacy volunteered to park the car and the rest of us jumped out.

"Cleopatra" was born in the hallway of the ER - delivered by the RN - just before my older sibling came around the corner to check on us.

The nurses cleaned up my beautiful daughter. Mary told me that she named our little girl Cleopatra because it meant "father's glory". I said it was because she was the queen of the world. No one, that I showed her off to, would...