Getting Stoned with Savages, III

So, in addition to adventures in exploring volcanoes, experiencing kava, and learning all he can about the up-til-very-recent-times practice of cannibalism on Vanuatu, Troost also writes about the fact that he and his wife discover that they are pregnant while on the island nation.  Here are a few quotes about that:

“So tell me what you see,” Sylvia asked as I awaited the red light of the nakamal.“One line or two?”
She thrust a thermometer-like contraption in my hands. “Well,” I said, “I see two lines, very clearly.”
“Do you know what that means?”
“No idea.”
“You’re going to be a daddy.”

And other:

What really got us marveling about Mother Nature, however, was the imminent prospect of parenthood.  Technically I knew where babies come from…The was life, a life that we had created.  And what a miraculous thing that is.  Every day our little embryo was sprouting a limb and growing a brain.  “According to the book,” I said to Sylvia, “our child presently has a tail.  Do you think that comes from my side or yours?”

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