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Chapter 15<br />

It felt strange leaving the office. I was nervous about how the guys would get on<br />

without me. I was also nervous about the scan. It was the supposed 10 weeks<br />

scan. I didn’t know if we’d learn our baby’s sex today or not. I had only seen<br />

these things in the movies.<br />

Did they really rub jelly on the belly?<br />

Did they swipe what looked like a barcode scanner across the bump and get a<br />

black and white image of a baby?<br />

Of my baby?<br />

Of our baby? Our baby, that made me smile.<br />

We located the office which in typical <strong>Polish</strong> fashion looked like all the other<br />

non-descript buildings it was surrounded by. Why can’t you put a big sign all<br />

over something to say it’s a hospital? Why paint it in the same colour schemes<br />

as the blocks of flats that it’s hidden between?<br />

To confuse me?<br />

Well that explains it then. Poland’s city planners all got together and on the off<br />

chance I’d show up at some point and then get a woman pregnant, they played a

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