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  2. The Girl and the Dead Man - Wikipedia

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    A poor woman's oldest daughter said she would go seek her fortune. The mother offered her a whole bannock with her curse or a little one with her blessing. She took the big one, and when she ate and birds begged for some, she refused it.

  3. Reproduction and pregnancy in speculative fiction - Wikipedia

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    Speculative fiction in technology of reproduction may involve cloning and ectogenesis, i.e., artificial reproduction). [2] [3]The latter part of the 2000s decade has also seen an upswing of films and other fiction depicting emotional struggles of assisted reproductive technology in contemporary reality rather than being speculation.

  4. Maternal mortality in fiction - Wikipedia

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    In the soap opera spin-off General Hospital: Night Shift, HIV-positive pregnant woman Stacey Sloan dies after complications of placental abruption. In Gossip Girl, the anti-hero Chuck Bass' mother allegedly died after giving birth to him. In Empresses in the Palace, there are two characters die after childbirth. Empress Chunyuan dies after ...

  5. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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    thin-sliced smoked salmon, commonly consumed on bagels; Yiddish from German 'Lachs', salmon. lugs (n.) ears (lugholes) a small projection (engineering) a lug nut fastens a wheel to the hub, (UK wheel nut). a "big lug" is usually a term of endearment for a large shy, goofy man. lumber (n.) disused items (as furniture)*; hence lumber room

  6. Lich - Wikipedia

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    The more recent use of the term lich for a specific type of undead creature originates from the 1976 Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game booklet Greyhawk, written by Gary Gygax and Rob Kuntz. [ 2 ] Often such a creature is the result of a willful transformation, as a powerful wizard skilled in necromancy who seeks eternal life uses rare ...

  7. Pregnant woman found dead in basement 32 years ago is ... - AOL

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    A woman whose body was found in a basement in Indiana in 1992 has now been identified. Tabetha Ann Murlin was identified through DNA, officials said at a news conference streamed by WPTA. “She ...

  8. Man Agrees To Get Older Woman Pregnant, Only For Her To Turn ...

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    A Tennessee man is taking his baby’s mother to court after she reportedly deceived him into thinking her daughter was his while forcing him to pay child support. Brett Fairley, 27, posted a now ...

  9. I Married a Dead Man - Wikipedia

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    The novel was adapted in 1950 into a movie directed by Mitchell Leisen called No Man of Her Own, and has been the basis for many films over the decades including Kati Patang (1971), the French film J'ai épousé une ombre (1983), Mrs. Winterbourne (1996) and American TV Movie She's No Angel (2001).