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I remember nothing of this, no ambulance rides, nothing. nothing between switching out the bedside lamp and the sudden indignity of rebirth: the slaps, the brightness, the tubing, the speed, the urgent insistence that i be choked back into breathing life. i have felt so sorry for babies ever since.

-Stephen Fry

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I Remember Nothing Of This, No Ambulance

Stephen Fry

I remember nothing of this, no ambulance rides, nothing. nothing between switching out the bedside lamp and the sudden indignity of rebirth: the slaps, the brightness, the tubing, the speed, the urgent insistence that i be choked back into breathing life. i have felt so sorry for babies ever since.

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