' He felt the pregnant woman squeeze his hand so hard that it hurt. Whose cervix? he wondered. Inside, there were only an empty communal kitchen and the countless, sordid bunkrooms —the ruptured mattresses infested with mice. He was aware of Nurse Edna observing the scrutiny he was giving to the girl, and so he bent once more to the view the speculum afforded him and finished his task with the small curette.
It was not for her to tell them that she knew what she knew; it was for them to tell her what they were keeping from her. 'I guess what you're telling me,' Melony went on, 'is that when women are fucking each other, it takes a lot longer for one of them to get pregnant than when a woman is fucking some guy. Maybe they thought that the Ferris wheel came from another planet and, when all the lights went out, that it had returned there. Even when they all pitched in for the harvest, it was hard to keep up with the apples Homer had provided.
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