Tower Tales
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Third-smallest baby born
Melinda Star Guido is surrounded by news cameras as she is discharged on Jan. 20 from Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center five months after her birth in Los Angeles. Guido was born at 24 weeks weighing 9.5 ounces, making her the third-smallest baby born in the world. At the time of her discharge, she weighed a mere 4.5 pounds. Doctors will continue to monitor her for the next six years.
(Source: parenting)
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One sudden fizz is followed by another. You lean out with your sparkler in hand over the black gap of the water and an answering spark shows below. Beside it your half-lit face floats like a ghost. The afterimage of the spark is like a burning fuse in the air, trailing a faint line as you make figure-eights and spirals. His sparkler swoops and zigzags, suddenly, and you try to follow the line but it’s too fast. Yours sputters out, then his, and you dip them in the water with a hiss. Your pupils stretch to the darkness again and you realise he’s looking at you expectantly. What for? “Shall we light some more?” you ask. “Did you see what I wrote in the air with mine?” he replies.You admit that you didn’t. “Ah,” he says, coming closer, and his angled arms shut around you like the hook that grabs toys at an arcade.
Four Walking Routes on the Grand Union Canal - Deirdre Ruane
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NorthHampton. To celebrate getting pregnant we stayed in a glorious hotel…I remember visiting the little church on the Estate where the family, the original owners (related to George Washington) had lived for centuries. A tiny baby was buried in the church, it had died prematurely. It haunted me in a peculiar way. And 4 weeks later, following my 12 week scan, we lost the pregnancy.
