In the movie Jurassic Park, one character played by Sam O'Neil is lost and running away from dinosaurs when he comes across a clutch of eggs. He kneels down and see the eggs have hatched, and little dinosaur tracks in the dirt lead away from the nest. The geneticist who created the dinosaurs inhabiting Jurassic Park had put in a gene that prohibited reproduction, but O'Neil, looking at the hatched eggs, marvels "Life found a way."

Well, I thought of how life will find a way when a friend phoned from Arkansas yesterday. She is married, a teacher, 41 years old, and due to abdominal surgery when a child was told she would never be able to get pregnant. Now, going through menopause, with menses sputtering, coming and going, finds herself pregnant for the first time.

She is shocked, her husband is shocked, her father is shocked, her co-workers and friends are shocked; I was shocked and delighted--it had been a given that pregnancy would never happen. But you know what? Life and nature found a way.
How astounding is that?

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