Where did you go? To the end of the driveway, my mother says. I was ni…

Jodi Picoult
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Where did you go? To the end of the driveway, my mother says. I was nine months pregnant; that was the maximum distance I could waddle without feeling as if my uterus was falling out. I wince. Do you have to be quite so graphic? What would you like me to call it, Zoe? A fetal living room? ✨ Jodi Picoult (2014). Sing You Home: A Novel, p.16, Simon and Schuster
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