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Twin A: A Memoir

Amit Majmudar

Shortly after learning they would become the parents of twins, the physician-writer Amit Majmudar and his wife received a devastating in utero diagnosis: one of the twins had a potentially fatal congenital heart defect.

HASTINGS: Do you seriously reckon you or anyone can hold up the other kind of mirror to [the Queen] now that’d show her the truth?

WILL [slowly]:  What if you could? What if you could make her say, This is me?

—Rowan Williams, Shakeshafte