Now my son and I are side by side, and one team of people is holding and helping him and another team of people is holding and helping me, and we are all covered in my blood, and both of us are just fine. I need do nothing but lie luxuriously and passively marvel at my baby next to me, as it seems as if every single worker in the hospital is busily employed in swabbing the two of us, cleaning us, and checking every single part of both of us again and again. Every detail is being written down and recorded on multiple charts and readouts because we all agree that this data is far too precious to
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