Your own autobiography title

Quite imaginative, DaisyAlice. Very impressive and creative. You have me curious as to the connection (between the title and the first line).

Which, of course, is the idea is it not?

My playlist of 4-minute videos I entitled "Papa's Childhood". The first line is so prosaic as to not be worth mentioning. The series was prompted by my family's enthusiasm for the similar playlist I produced of anecdotes of family members no longer with us, a PBS News Hour segment by Janice Nimura [ www.pbs.org/video/remember-this-1605312031/ ] and the trope that "my grandchildren will never know the world I grew up in."

My youngest GD's response? "It's kinda boring".

Ive written a number of stories based upon my childhood but never an entire biography. One story was called:-

The Revenge of the Frilly White Ankle Socks

First line:-

I was born while while my father was serving in the navy and he learned of my birth through letters.

Brilliant idea for a thread.

Title; There's trifle in the wardrobe.

First line; I've been a midwife for 27 years but never in my life have I seen such an ugly baby but she has a face of character!

Well, that didn’t go as planned…..

A time machine would be quite handy…

I'm still standing.

I went to an auction sale to bid for a red bicycle and came out with a mother.

henetha Fascinating.

Please don't make me go through that again.

I was my mother's second child, my 'father's first.

I say it as it is.

You know me what did you expect?

A cat whisperer.
I have a very gentle voice that cats respond to.
I have already written a memoir about running a Cattery in Spain.
When walking locally, I might see a domestic cat and generally stand still until said cat comes to rub its head around my legs. I don’t try to touch it. Just talk to it. I then have to persuade it to go home.
Hope you don’t all think I’m crazy or even the cat woman. I have no desire to rescue cats in my old age.
Think the Dogfather.

My male friend and I had a joke about this.
He told me of a time that he was a lairy young man on holiday in Europe. It culminated in a story that prompted me to say that the experience should be the title of his autobiography:
‘Tazered in Bulgaria’.

Sometime later I told him of an incident that happened to me in my youth, which led him to say that my autobiography should be called,
‘Kidnapped by a Rasta in Dudley’

Listen to me!

Obviously I am not right all of the time, but I would like to think I am!

Always ready for a laugh.

Relieved to never have to cook a meal again!

That worked out quite well.

My mother was a strange, embittered woman.

I like the sound of yours Kitty
Very intriguing!

And yours Henetha

Mistake

I was born after the war my sister 12 years older. In later years my brother used to introduce to doctors thus.
It has influenced me all my life. I had so many opportunities not available to my older siblings. Free orange juice etc
This expose-all autobiography will include lots of family secrets and raunchy anecdotes.
Will it sell?

Yes lovely thread thankyou.
My title is Disappointing
and the first line 'Her timing was awful'.

Title: Under the bed and beyond

The powerful light of her torch carefully searched each dark corner and crevice looking for HIM....was that a black hairy leg she could see or was it just part of the 1980s carpet pattern?.

Vissi d’arte, vissi d’amore

I was born over a butcher’s shop.

I knew he had cheated.

Like the sun and the moon,the truth will always come out.

Not Waving but Drowning

Second Best.
I had the brains but my younger sister had the beauty and a way of getting everyone to adore her.

Not Your Average Person. The first two lines would be: “It’s been an unusual life so far. Even my mother has told me that l have been eccentric since the day I was born.”

In reality, I cannot imagine that anyone would really want to read my autobiography. In the last couple of years l have been plagued, sorry, delighted with friends self-publishing their autobiographies and donating them to me. Some are better written than others and I realise that it can be very cathartic for the author but I really don’t want to read the minutiae of other people’s generally mundane lives. I am to be given another shortly and am frankly dreading it as there appears to have been no editing and the author has a very weak grasp of written English - her spelling and grammar are appalling. I hope this does not make me sound as if I am a mean person because, of course, I would never say these things to their faces but congratulate them on their hard work and dedication.
It’s a lovely thread, though.

If I knew Then What I Know Now

My autobiography would not be riveting either Musicgirl.