Eve Bunting was born December 19, 1928 in Maghera, County Derry, Ireland. "When I was a child I lived with my parents in the small Northern Ireland town of Maghera. I guess we were rich, by the standards of the town. My father was the postmaster, and had...

"We're pregnant," Caren, a 37-year-old businesswoman, tells her friends and family. Usually when a woman says this, she means herself and her husband. But in this case, "we" is three people: Caren, her husband, Eric, and his sister, the surrogate who is carrying...

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