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  1. Chris Bohjalian _ Midwives

    When the sun is strong and the air is warm, however, we shout greetings to one another down the lengths of long driveways and from the windows of our cars as we pass; we hold our heads high as we walk, staring up into the sky with our eyes shut and our faces widened by smiles. We breathe in deeply the summery air, but this sort of inhalation doesn't result in a sigh; it's a precursor to a purr, or the moans one might make during a backrub. We no longer mope, we no longer grouse. We are filled with energy. Although
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  2. Chris Bohjalian _ Midwives

    ...we were too young- and the ground too muddy- for our small part of the earth to move.
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  3. Chris Bohjalian _ Midwives

    Then there were those girls who became midwives: girls who could not get enough of the tiniest of babies - girls who would grow into women who absolutely reveled in the magnificent process of birth...The difference between a woman who becomes an OB and the women who becomes and midwife has less to do with education, philosophy or upbringing than with the depth of her appreciation for the miracle of labor and for life in its moment of emergence.
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  4. Chris Bohjalian _ Midwives

    Boys look at us like we look at horses: color, height, eyes. tail. They can't help but have preferences.
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  5. Chris Bohjalian _ Midwives

    No one said living isn't a pretty chancy business, Sibyl. No one gets out of here alive.
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  6. Chris Bohjalian _ Midwives

    Everything about {chance} scares the bejesus out of so many people; it's the this thing they try to avoid at all costs. Don't travel to the Middle East these days - there's a chance something could happen. Don't get involved with that new fellow on Creamery Street - I hear a lot of mud was scraped off his floor after the divorce. Don't have your baby at home - there's a a chance something could go wrong. Don't don't don't... Well, you can't live your life like that! You can't spend your entire life avoiding chance. It's out there, it's inescapable, it's a part of the soul of the world. There are no sure things in this universe, and it's absolutely ridiculous to try and live like there are!
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