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Three Toasts to Destiny: The Night I Found Out I Was Just a Vessel

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Pregnancy insomnia had me wide awake at 2 AM, mindlessly scrolling through my phone, when I stumbled upon a video titled "Three Toasts to Destiny." In the video, a frail girl in a hospital bed was holding up a plastic medicine cup filled with ginger ale, toasting to her rebirth. The first toast is to my lover. Here’s to him suppressing his physical disgust to sleep with that woman. Just because she has O-negative blood, making her the perfect incubator to grow my "cure." The second toast is to the fetus. Because only that woman’s newborn stem cells are pure enough. So my lover tracked…

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