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DNAbling Parents

On a sunday morning in late november 2000, Karen McGuire went to Mass with a special request for God. As she walked up the aisle to take Holy Communion, she thought about her secret—a recent home pregnancy test had confirmed that she was pregnant. As the priest placed the wafer on her tongue, she swallowed it and prayed that her developing baby would grow up healthy and strong.

A month later the thirty-seven-year-old human resources manager and her husband, Gerry, thirty-four, a graduate student in history, traveled from their Long Island apartment to Karen’s brother’s house in Boston. At bedtime . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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