Pregnant journalist Ariel Levy travels to
Mongolia just before Thanksgiving to write a story. Specifically on the booming
mining industry that was to transform its country from rags to riches. During
her stay in Mongolia she begins to have horrible pains in her stomach one
evening and decides to return to her hotel room. Once there she goes on to
explain how she had her baby on the bathroom floor! “I felt an unholy storm
move through my body” she explained. The baby had been born at nineteen weeks
and she was told on the phone the baby would not make it. Turns out that she
had a placental abruption and it could have happened to anyone at any time. Needless
to say she didn’t get the story she had gone there to capture.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/11/18/thanksgiving-in-mongolia
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