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Writing and childbirth: Yet another bloody metaphor.

Writing and childbirth: Yet another bloody metaphor.

By Meg Rosoff on 1 July 2010

I went into labour at 9pm on a Friday night watching Have I Got News For You.  The pain started immediately, the taxi ride to University College Hospital was torture, and when I got there, the harpy at the desk told me to go home.  ”You’re hardly dilated at all,” she told me. “What about [...]

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