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When we decided to have Julie, I couldn__ carry her. We sat down and the hard numbers stared back at us. I made twice as much as Fern. We wouldn__ have been able to feed ourselves, let alone another mouth, if I__ been the one to hold her. And so we both went for the operation, and they took eggs from the two of us and made them one. And then I squeezed Fern__ hand when she went into the theatre, and when she came out again they__ put it inside her. And sheltered by her body, the one cell that was us divided and became two, and then three, and then four hundred million, and then they divided into parts. Lungs, heart, brain, mouth. And finally, when she was ready, Julie divided from Fern and there were three of us.
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When we decided to have Julie, I couldn__ carry her. We sat down and the hard numbers stared back at us. I made twice as much as Fern. We wouldn__ have been able to feed ourselves, let alone another mouth, if I__ been the one to hold her. And so we both went for the operation, and they took eggs from the two of us and made them one. And then I squeezed Fern__ hand when she went into the theatre, and when she came out again they__ put it inside her. And sheltered by her body, the one cell that was us divided and became two, and then three, and then four hundred million, and then they divided into parts. Lungs, heart, brain, mouth. And finally, when she was ready, Julie divided from Fern and there were three of us.

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