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"The women in House 3 rarely had a chance to speak to the women in House 5, but
when they did, the things they heard scared them. They didn’t actually know
where House 5 was, only that it was huge and perched somewhere outside Tbilisi,
on one of the many hills that surround the Georgian capital. They heard that
there were hundreds of pregnant women in House 5, crammed many to a room. They
heard that there was limited food in House 5’s communal kitchen — the pork,
rice and vegetables their bosses were supposed to provide daily were in short
supply — and so the women of House 5 had to fight one another for vegetables or
go hungry.
When the women from House 3 saw the women from House 5 at the fertility clinic,
they looked fierce. They sat in the waiting area with their legs crossed and
their arms folded.
Intimidating. Maybe, they told themselves, those House 5
women had to be that way to survive. They heard that in House 5, they kept
their cooking oil in their own rooms, not communally as they did in House 3,
where whoever wanted to could use it. The women in House 3 also heard that if a
woman in their house misbehaved, broke the rules, didn’t take her fertility
medication on time, talked back or tried to run away, the bosses of House 3
would sell her to the bosses of House 5. Then, her troubles would really
begin."
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Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
