And then, buoyed up by the music, it was time for my very own snippet of Olympic glory -- entering the echoing bowl of the stadium, to the cheers of spectators.
The mystery of pregnancy and the heroism of Lindbergh combined to give a distinction bordering on the divine to my very own mother, for whom nothing less than a global annunciation had accompanied the incarnation of her first child.
There have been some truly intriguing and terrific looking projects on Kickstarter lately, but as excited as I am about Grim Dawn and Project Eternity, Sui Generis sounds like a game cobbled together from my very own wish-list.
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Lest you think I'm one of those injustice-collecting urban paranoids with a tinfoil hat and a plastic bag containing a brisket and a manifesto in tiny handwriting, a New York crazy who has a problem with everybody and everything, I should mention that I grew up with -- and adored -- a dog of my very own.
"I wore my own clothes back then, which were not very good, and I cut my own hair, which also was not very good, " Ms. Williams said.
Even my own very small local radio station got rid of what had been, for decades, the weather forecast.
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My husband has no complaints about our sex life, my attention to "wifely" matters such as housecleaning and cooking, or my future desire to have children, and I think you will find that the majority of my peers and their spouses share opinions and lifestyles very similar to my own.
But I am obviously trained to understand my own physiology very, very well.
Now that I finally own my very-first-ever iPhone, I can finally start reviewing iOS games without having to borrow an iPad.
Anyway, this was very nice because it scratched my own itch by solving a problem I was very familiar with and fit perfectly with the industry I love .
But I am very wary of my own instinct for retribution, and of yours.
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This is a philosophy that resonates very much with my own.
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"I get very worried because my own biography leads me to believe that, especially for those children whose challenges are most pressing, social services are often what make the critical difference, " Habib said.
"I'm very sure, in my own mind, that she was mentally and verbally abused, " he said.
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The best example of this in my own career was a very wise man named Joseph Lesser who hired me straight out of law school.
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On my own, I spotted a very promising shelf and kicked down for a peek.
In my own case, a bit of very important good luck tracked me down one day in 1981, as I stood at a San Francisco curbside, washing my crummy old car.
My own sense about this David, very strongly is that actually what people would prefer to choose is an NHS hospital here and what they want is their choice of a good local hospital and that's why we've got the money going in, got the reforms going in and I think that is the central point.
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What we want therefore is investment in it but I am pleased to say that the restrictions on foot and mouth are easing, last time of course I was mentioning, particularly Anglesey, my own constituency, I'm very pleased to say that the restrictions have now been lifted, we are turning the corner, I'm looking forward much more optimistically than when I last spoke to you.
"My own view is that it has a very slim chance of being scheduled on the floor, " Armey told reporters.
At the time, this was the hardest concept to apply since I was single and very independent, making all my financial decisions on my own.
While there will be a support crew with me there will be very little interaction, so will be on my own for six or seven hours which I will find mentally quite tough.
The truth, if you will forgive my own mixed metaphors, is that it is very difficult to claim with any certainty whether today's growth figures mark a turning of the tide or a false dawn for the economy.
My own view is that I think we need a very different regulatory paradigm.
In my own childhood I learned a hard lesson at a very early age - you can't allow powerful people to bully the weak or to abuse their own power.
Based on my own experience working with people, the odds are very high that the idea that you have in your head is not always going to be received as intended in the minds of your recipients.
"The writing seemed very familiar, and much to my astonishment, it was my own, " he said today in an interview.
My own uncle was a dedicated electrical engineer at Ford who was very proud of the car company.
My own strongest panto memory was at Birmingham Hippodrome and I was very small - no more than four.
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