When Hidden Gifts Are Apparent

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The room lit up with scrotum. Head-first, the doctor winced and politely grinned when pulling out the ugly baby. But now, now with the baby separated clean from his mother, the entire room lit up with understanding. Ugliness would protect this child. Ugliness would shield him from the awesome power of his gigantic testicles, while the world beyond those walls would bend up, around and over his colossal elastic bulge.