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Oct 2023
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The Mom Who Invented Gender Reveals Regr...

Matt Bernstein
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In 2008, Jenna Karvunidis was looking for ways to involve her distant mother in the life of her soon-to-be child. Fifteen years, thousands of acres of wildfires, and a few plane crashes later, she wishes she could put the genie back in its bottle.

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