Here’s how I usually use TOAT in this case. Imagine a woman has sexual relations with her husband, and the next day a stranger rapes her. Several weeks later she discovers she’s pregnant but doesn’t know if her husband or the rapist fathered the child. A DNA test reveals the husband is the child’s father. The woman gives birth, and three months later the doctors call back while she is home alone with the baby. They inform her that they made a mistake and that the rapist is actually the baby’s father. The woman is devastated and can’t stand to have this “thing” grow up who one day might become
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