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When you take the train home that night it is dark and it is raining. You try to peer through the train window into the night but you are pulled back into the carriage by the reflections of the people on the other side of the aisle. They are not pregnant, just as you are not pregnant. You sigh and lean back with your eyes closed. It does not take much for your thoughts to return to their currently favourite subject, that of pregnancy.

When you visited the clinic that afternoon you were confronted with a choice you did not realise you would have. According to doctor Sagiran it is now possible, without a great deal of extra effort, to select sperm cells based on the gender they will bestow on any resulting baby. Although the success rate is not 100%, you and Paul will be able to significantly increase your chances of having a boy or a girl if you wish to do so.

When the train has ground to a halt at Kalman Station a woman stumbles in, laden with shopping bags and flanked by two young girls. You wonder what she would have done if she had had the opportunity to choose. Would she have chosen to have a boy after her first daughter had been born? Would she have regretted that choice if she had known what her second girl would have been like?

You sigh again and sit up straight, shaking your head in an attempt to rid yourself of all these complicated thoughts. In the face of such a difficult decision in the near future you feel like comfort food, although you had sworn to yourself that you would only be eating healthy stuff this week.

On your way from the train station, do you decide to stop at the milk bar for a block of Cadbury's hazelnut chocolate? Or do you reign yourself in and walk straight home?

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