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	<title>Wild Violet online literary magazine &#187; Jennifer A. Powers</title>
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		<title>Nature&#8217;s New Generation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 20:07:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer A. Powers]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The young lady delivers her first child but continues to have fits of cramps, and the doctor says, “I see something else.”&#160; He grips the forceps to extract the emerging object from the lady’s body.&#160; “Is it another baby?” she says.&#160; “What is it?”&#160; Perspiration coats her rosy face. But the confounded doctor doesn’t answer.&#160; [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>The young lady delivers her first child but continues to have fits of cramps, and the doctor says, “I see something else.”&nbsp; He grips the forceps to extract the emerging object from the lady’s body.&nbsp;</p>
<p>“Is it another baby?” she says.&nbsp; “What is it?”&nbsp; Perspiration coats her rosy face.</p>
<p>But the confounded doctor doesn’t answer.&nbsp; He struggles with the emerging object.&nbsp; The young lady screams; she grips the hospital bed sheets.&nbsp; He pulls out the object — <em>what on earth?</em>&nbsp; It’s a square object covered in thick plastic, which the doctor has trouble removing even with scissors.&nbsp; <em>A book from Amazon?&nbsp;&nbsp; </em>It’s the fattest book he has ever seen — Tolstoy’s <em>War and Peace</em>?&nbsp; The doctor wipes the cover clean and reads the title aloud: <em>Book of Instructions for the New Mother</em>.&nbsp;</p>
<p>“By golly,” the doctor says, “Nature caught on.”&nbsp; His eyes pop with delight. &nbsp;“A scientific miracle!” he says, waving the book with excitement.&nbsp; “You must be the luckiest woman alive!”</p>
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