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When I was in college my mom told me that she had a miscarriage the year before she had me. Now, miscarriages are common, especially during first pregnancies, but the fact that my older cousin (who was four years old at the time) playfully jumped in Mom's lap about a day before it happened was probably a big contributing factor. My parents weren't going to announce the pregnancy until she started to show, so Mom, Dad, and Mom's OB/GYN were the only ones who knew about it. To this day, my extended family has no idea Mom was pregnant then. Mom never felt that the miscarriage was a big loss - she reasoned that there was almost certainly something wrong with the fetus anyway - but the thing is that my parents always planned on only having one kid. If my cousin hadn't involuntarily-manslaughtered my sibling in the womb, I never would have been born.
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# ¿ Nov 1, 2015 04:44 |
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# ¿ May 16, 2024 08:00 |