His Brother’s Keeper

My brother, Gene Berthelsen, was born at 5:13 pm on October 4, 1937. I was born 20 minutes later at 5:33, although it could have been the other way round. We can’t be sure.

That is because when our mother brought us home from what was then Siskiyou County Hospital in Yreka, California, and bathed us for the first time, she took off the hospital-supplied …