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Show Things to Remember 135 "Sometimes?" "Yes, and one never knows when a bleeding phase starts." "Oh, hemophilia." Some shook their heads knowingly. "That's a royal disease. You must have royalty in your blood." "We don't have to worry about l i t t l e cuts. No problem," she said. "Internal bleeding, that's the enemy. A bleeder can step off a curb, j o l t his system, and start bleeding spontaneously." As the months passed, Geoffrey fared well enough. Yet, sometimes, out of nowhere i t seemed, a big, purplish, unhuman blotch mounded on his back, arm or cheek to remind everyone that the fates were restless. "Don't relax," they whispered. "Don't s i t back and sigh relief. Uh uh. Don't do i t . Because as soon as you do..." "We'll fend you off," Susan whispered between the lines of Mother Goose that she read louder and louder. "We'll goose you, fate." Everyone told Dave and Susan that they were "rocks. Stalwart. Brave." "You're 4^ months pregnant and didn't know it?" Dave asked with disbelief. "Yes." "Well, you've been nursing Geoffrey. How could that happen?" "It did." "What are we going to do with another baby?" "Have i t . What else could we do?" "What about the hemophilia?" "Don't ask. Don't ask." |