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“You’ll suffer naturally because you’re toxic,” my doctor husband sneered, blocking the nurses from performing a C-section for my giant 10-pound baby as revenge for his intern. I writhed in pain, clutching the bed rails until my knuckles turned white. When the grueling delivery finally ended, the heavy delivery room doors banged open. My husband staggered in, his face drained of color as he looked at the newborn chart, fell to the floor, and shrieked, “No… that’s impossible! Whose child is-“

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the oxygen from the room.

Paralyzed by his institutional authority, three nurses reluctantly descended, their hands clamping down on my shoulders and thighs, pinning me to the mattress with suffocating force. Through the blurring edges of my consciousness, I caught sight of Hannah positioned just behind his shoulder, a sickening, triumphant smirk curling continue reading …

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