My Life Without Me
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1:08:01
You know, you've got really cute kids.
1:08:03
Yeah, they're great, aren't they?
1:08:06
What about you? You want kids?
1:08:09
No, I don't think so.
1:08:12
Why not? I mean,
1:08:14
you think it's stupid
to bring them into the world, or...?

1:08:17
Just haven't found
the right guy, or...?

1:08:20
No, I haven't.
1:08:22
No, but it's not that either, no.
1:08:25
Do you think you can't?
1:08:28
No. Well,
1:08:31
I don't know, actually.
1:08:39
But...
1:08:43
I was in my last year
of nursing college.

1:08:46
We were doing some work experience
in a paediatric hospital.

1:08:50
I'd decided to specialize in kids,
because I've always liked them.

1:08:55
Maybe because I was an only child.
1:08:59
I don't know. Anyway,
1:09:01
one night I was on duty,
1:09:03
and they called me in
to help with a birth.

1:09:05
This woman was overdue,
1:09:07
she was expecting twins,
and the babies were in danger.

1:09:11
So they decided to do
a caesarean

1:09:15
and the mother was put
under a general anaesthetic.

1:09:20
And...
1:09:24
it turned out they were Siamese twins.
1:09:27
They were born without one torso...
one set of lungs...

1:09:30
they hardly cried.
1:09:33
They weren't horrible to look at.
1:09:35
No, they were just like any other baby.
1:09:40
But
1:09:42
there was no way
they were going to survive.

1:09:45
It's impossible.
1:09:50
So we put them in an incubator
while the doctors talked to the father

1:09:52
about what they should do.
1:09:55
The father didn't even wanna see them.
1:09:59
So they decided to take them out
of the incubator


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