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Pregnant at 53

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Emily Sanders Hopkins
May 30, 2023
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We tried for years to have a second child. For two straight years, we drove to a fertility clinic 50 miles away to get my eggs measured and, when they were the right size, extracted while I was under general anesthesia. Then the washing of the sperm and the fertilization of the eggs and the insertion of those microscopic fertilized eggs di…

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