My best friend and I decided to get pregnant by the same man so our children would share the same genes. But when the doctor saw our genetic test results, he said in horror, “Oh my God… Do you understand what could happen to these babies?” Then something completely unexpected happened…

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My best friend, Emily, is 31. We’ve been friends for twenty-five years. We grew up together, went to school together, fell in love for the first time together, and experienced our first heartbreaks together.

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Our mothers always joked that we were more like sisters than friends.

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But we shared one dream above all others: to become mothers someday and raise our children together.

Life, however, had something very different in store for us.

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