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By now Riddle has grown to the size of my thumb. No longer a grotesque embryo, it is a creature with a human face and body—a fetus. The photographs show that it is a lovely, frail elf of a child, smooth and precious as a netsuke carving, glowing like ivory, like polished alabaster, with a skin so transparent its newly-formed organs darken it like shadows, and a face as sweet as a Buddha’s or a Madonna’s.
The Almighty shall bless thee with the blessings of heaven above, with the blessings of the deep that lieth beneath, with the blessings of the breasts and of the womb.
Genesis 49: 25
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Hegland, J. (1991). The Third Month. In: The Life Within. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0487-9_3
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