the Arabs had their own solution to the Baby problem. And—for her own good, for our suffering friends and the very sanity of our beloved circle—they’d deployed it. A British obstetrician, one of Flor Bautista’s colleagues, had accompanied them a few days earlier to visit Baby. I’ve seen women in your predicament give birth in handcuffs, warned the doctor, just before they went to jail. Baby was advised to catch the next plane to Manila. This is Bahrain, Lourdes Ocampo reminded her, not Olongapo City.
