When my mother was pregnant with me, they did an ultrasound and found she was having twins. When they did another ultrasound a few weeks later, they discovered that I had adsorbed the other fetus. Do I regret this? No, I believe his tissue has made me stronger. I now have the strength of a grown woman and a little baby.
1948. it was a rat year. when rail transportation was still considered vital to national security, and the second world war had only ended a couple of years before. the highways were still two lane and you could get most places just as fast on a train because of traffic and road conditions. i grew up in the diesel era. steam was still around, but was being rapidly replaced. computers and space exploration were still dreams for the future, a moon made of green cheese and people living next to canelles on mars were still plausable. we had lights and refrigerators and telephones, but radios still had vacuum tubes instead of transistors, television was still the leading edge and frequency modulation had yet to go public. first grade reading was still jane can run. it wasn't until i was in 3rd grade that dr suess showed up. before kennidy was shot, p.b.s. was n.e.t., national educational television, which mostly broadcast college extension classes. and the mom and pop chatterbox cafe had yet to be replaced by some clown with golden arches.