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Imagine. It's your birthday.

Now, like your 10th birthday or your 16th birthday with cake and candles and all that stuff,

it's literally the day of your birth.

The trouble is, we're not really in the mood to be born.

You're just not feeling it.

You're good where you are.

Safe and snug in your mother's belly.

Getting lots of nourishment and for kicks.

Well, you kick.

Your mom's due date was over two months ago and she's gigantic, cranky and freaked out.

Imagine how you'd feel if there was a two-month-old baby inside you that didn't want to leave.

She's also 40, which is a bit concerning for all involved, but nothing can be done about that now.

You're too big for a traditional birth so the doctors are going to perform a C-section.

Your parents have to borrow money from friends to pay for the operation.

They're poor.

Your father works as a cook, your mother-a-housekeeper.

It will take them years to pay it back.

So, you better not be a jerk, baby.

You better be worth the expense and the trouble.

Huh. What's happening?

And then a ray of light pokes through.

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