When a woman gives birth her waters break and she pours out the child …

Jeanette Winterson
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When a woman gives birth her waters break and she pours out the child and the child runs free. ✨ Jeanette Winterson (2007). Sexing the Cherry, p.4, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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