Well, of course I've checked with my MOTHER about my time of birth, daylia, for flip's sake! Who else would I have gotten that information from? Nobody else has a clue about it, I can assure you, because she was the only one present in the room at the time, and for awhile afterward.

This is complicated somewhat by the fact that I have never known my mother to tell any story about anything without significant and quite exaggerated distortion of the facts... (It's not that she deliberately lies, she just has a tendency to unconsciously embellish things, which makes for a better story. If she says that 500 people died in a train wreck that destroyed 50 rail cars, you will presently find out it was closer to 15 people and 5 rail cars.)