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    Unbegotten Child
    Unbegotten Child
    Unbegotten Child
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    Unbegotten Child

    By Winston K. Marks

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Unbegotten Child - Winston K. Marks

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Unbegotten Child, by Winston Marks

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      Title: Unbegotten Child

      Author: Winston Marks

      Illustrator: Vidmer

      Release Date: April 27, 2010 [EBook #32149]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK UNBEGOTTEN CHILD ***

      Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online

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      Transcriber's Note:

      This etext was produced from Galaxy Science Fiction November 1953. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.

      unbegotten child

      By WINSTON MARKS

      Illustrated by VIDMER

      If this was true, there ought to be another edition of What Every Young Girl Should Know!

      hat, she demanded, sitting bolt upright in the hospital bed, has happened to the medical world? In Italy, they tell me I have an abdominal tumor. In Paris, it's cancer. And now you fat-heads are trying to tell me I'm pregnant!"

      I stuffed my stethoscope into my jacket pocket and tried to pat her hand. Take it easy, Mrs. Caffey—

      "It's Miss Caffey, damn you, she said snatching her hand away, and better I should have gone to an astrologer!"

      See here, now, I said, letting a stern note enter my voice. You came here requesting a verification of the malignancy of this growth. Our discovery of a six month foetus is a fact, not an accusation.

      "Look, Buster, I'm a thirty-six-year-old spinster. Like the joke goes, I haven't been married or

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