But then Toban gave me the greatest speech ever given, which, looking back, I realize sounded a lot like the battle cry from Shakespeare’s Henry V (“We few! We happy few!”) but ended with “Look at them!” (He pointed dramatically through the window at the women taking the class.) “Do any of them look like they can crank out an enormous baby? Those little wimps? One lady just asked for filtered water, Kate. Filtered water!” I started to laugh, which meant I had started to breathe again. “You are going to go. back. in. there. and learn how to have. this. baby!” And then we marched back in there
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