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one night I was on duty,
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and they called me in
to help with a birth.
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This woman was overdue,
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she was expecting twins,
and the babies were in danger.
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So they decided to do
a caesarean
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and the mother was put
under a general anaesthetic.
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And...
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it turned out they were Siamese twins.
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They were born without one torso...
one set of lungs...
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they hardly cried.
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They weren't horrible to look at.
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No, they were just like any other baby.
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But
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there was no way
they were going to survive.
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It's impossible.
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So we put them in an incubator
while the doctors talked to the father
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about what they should do.
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The father didn't even wanna see them.
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So they decided to take them out
of the incubator
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and wait for them to die.
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And I offered
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to be with them until they...
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I couldn't bear the thought of them
dying alone
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in a cold hospital room.
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They lived thirty hours.
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I held them in my arms thirty hours.
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I sang every song I knew,
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songs from the world
they could never see, but...
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Anyway, they just grew smaller
and smaller in my arms.
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First the boy died, and...
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six hours later the girl died.
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So... since then I've specialized
in geriatric nursing.