Casting my own eye down Fifth Avenue as my belly swelled, I would register with incredulity: Every one of these people came from a woman's cunt.
("We Need to Talk About Kevin")
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Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it well? My mother.
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