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A childhood belief about giving birth

My mum always told us that when my brother was born he was "born in a black bag". I still don't really know what that means, I guess it was some membrane or something, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't a bin-liner which is how I always imagined it as a child. I always wondered how they got the bin-liner in there in the first place and then how my brother knew to climb inside it when he was only an unborn baby.

— "Born in a black bag"'s sister.

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