Birth
Grace and Virginia were born in 1970 in Columbus, Georgia. Their birth was normal, and they were able to lift their heads and make eye contact with their parents within hours after birth. But both soon suffered apparent seizures, and their father claimed that a surgeon told him the girls might experience mental retardation. Misunderstanding speculation for diagnosis, the girls' parents ceased to pay more attention to them than necessary.
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Famous quotes containing the word birth:
“The condition that gives birth to a rule is not the same as the condition to which the rule gives birth.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“They do not live in the world,
Are not in time and space.
From birth to death hurled
No word do they have, not one
To plant a foot upon,
Were never in any place.”
—Edwin Muir (1887–1959)
“For birth was a disease and Christopher and I invented the cure.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)