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Maria wakes up.

None of that was real.

But still, it was much better than being in the cold patient's room of a teaching hospital, learning in front of a crowd of about 20 students, that her abortion procedure was successful. That inside of her was no longer life; but a blob of fluids, blood, and empty space.

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