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only a sinner saved by grace ([personal profile] owl) wrote2006-09-22 01:14 pm

Extraordinary fecundity

Those of you who marvel at Mrs Marlow's four babies in 19 months feat, this woman has her beaten: five in 10.
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[personal profile] yubsie 2006-09-22 12:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Holy SMOKES. That is all.

[identity profile] ankaret.livejournal.com 2006-09-22 01:07 pm (UTC)(link)
I would lay money that her six-year-old daughter ends her life childless after helping to bring up that lot.

[identity profile] ladyaeryn.livejournal.com 2006-09-22 02:55 pm (UTC)(link)
EEEK! My uterus hurts just thinking about that. :S

[identity profile] sunshine-queen.livejournal.com 2006-09-22 07:59 pm (UTC)(link)
I- I just-

... how?

[identity profile] emmy-roo.livejournal.com 2006-09-22 10:33 pm (UTC)(link)
. . . whoa.

[identity profile] ankaret.livejournal.com 2006-09-27 12:13 pm (UTC)(link)
I have a vague feeling that one kind of twins do and the other don't, but I can't at all recall whether it's fraternal twins that do and identical that don't or vice versa.

There, that was helpful, wasn't it? ;)

[identity profile] ankaret.livejournal.com 2006-09-27 12:39 pm (UTC)(link)
No, it's [livejournal.com profile] medusa and [livejournal.com profile] dr_atheist's Felix, who now has a full head of hair and looks nothing like that. I made it into an icon to weird out all the people who've heard me do the 'I like children, but I also like being able to give them back' speech, but I keep finding uses for it so it stayed. :)