Canned+Green+Tomatoes



Montreal, April 4, 2011

Dear Robert,

Like you asked me, here is the story on my birth.

I was born in Canada on a beautiful autumn day. My mother tells me that the sun was shinning and there was a light wind. That day, my parents made canned green tomatoes in the morning. My father drove my mother to the hospital in the afternoon and I was born late that night, three minutes before midnight.

I was very small when I was an infant: I only weighted 4 pounds and a half. I was so small my father could hold me in one hand.

In what season were you born? I would like to know. Why don’t you write me a letter?

All the best! Joël