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Four girls pool their breasts
together for a total of eight.

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[LAUGHTER]

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To avoid awkwardness,
stares and uselessness,

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they're quick to
round up some babies.

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The babies know how
to get a good latch,

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but the girls, who
are new at this,

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have trouble getting their
elbows out of the way.

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They worry about explaining
their bruised faces at work

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the next day.

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Group breastfeeding accident?

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[LAUGHTER]

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Truth isn't a stranger.

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Girl B's mother comes along and
drapes a soft, gauzy blanket

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over the whole pile
of girls and babies

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but the motive is not modesty.

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The heads of the
babies cover up enough

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of the breasts for
enough of the time.

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Rather, the intention
of the mother

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is to shield them all from the
impending storm, while still

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allowing for air circulation.

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That kind of mother gauze.

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The breast feeding
babies while nursing

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breathe through their nostrils.

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Without this ability,
said baby would be forced

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to choose breathe or nurse.

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The two cannot be
done concurrently.

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Over the decades, the
collective, heavy and steady

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nose breathing of the
babies slowly wears down

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the gauzy blanket.

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One baby mindlessly
fingers a hole

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in the gauze while
continuing to suckle milk

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from girl A. One baby is face
fucking the breast of a highly

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influential art curator,
but has neither the language

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nor the awareness so
as to make it count.

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One baby is distracted by the
sound of another baby fondling

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the gauze and breaks away
from the spell of the breast,

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catches a glimpse of
the moon shimmering

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through a hole in the gauze.

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One baby is crushed by the
weight of another baby.

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This in itself is not
really the problem.

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It is just that
under the pressure

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of the weight of
the other baby, she

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can feel her own
center of gravity

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sliding away, threatening
to elongate or separate

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her body away from her head,
her mouth, her lips clamped

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around the tired
breast of girl H.

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Her body stretches out.

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The nipple of girl
H stretches out.

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Something has to
give, and it will.

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But sometimes, this takes
years maybe, 9 or 10 or more.