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Wow, this chapter just about blew me away! So much angst and heartfelt soul searching, I feel exhausted after reading it all. I have to say I've been on the verge of tears sitting here in my office thinking about how devestating it is for Clark to realize he's dying, for Lois who is coming to realize how much she really cares for Clark and for Jonathan and Martha who are facing the loss of their only son! waaaaaaaa  I can tell that a lot of thought went into how you would portray the questions that can surround a decision like this. I am of the mind that, if done for the right reasons, a baby conceived to save a life if a beautiful and wonderful thing. I think you're doing a great job with this sensitive subject. ~Liz
Lois: Can I go?
Clark: No.
Lois: Oh come on, Clark, why do we go through this? We both know I’m going to go.
Clark: Then why do you ask?
Lois: I’m trying to be nice.
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feel exhausted after reading it all Took the words right out of my mouth. Such a HUGE installment of wonderful work and writing. And sooo much emotion. Exhausting, inspiring, wow! Sigh I do hope Clark takes his Mom's advice, and I hope your Lois finally comes to terms with why she's really willing to make this "sacrifice".  Well done! TEEEEEEEJ
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oh - so, so good! this is heartwarming and heartwrenching at the same time. looking forward to more soon! how about a thrice-weekly posting schedule? pretty please?  shells
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I am of the mind that, if done for the right reasons, a baby conceived to save a life if a beautiful and wonderful thing. I think that Clark understands the issue much better than Lois: they should make a baby only if they want to have this baby together and have decided to be his/her parents for the rest of their lives.
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Hi, Wow! Great parts. Hope they'll do it the old fashion way. 
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Don't like Luthor, unfinished, untitled and crossover story, and people that promises and don't deliver. I'm getting choosy with age.
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For a somewhat! selfish woman like Lois Lane to offer up a baby to save Clark, a bell should be going off in her head:
I'M IN LOVE WITH CLARK!!!
Helllllllllloooooooooooo!!!
Very well done. Great treatment of a somewhat controversial subject!
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No...No.....
I can´t take it anymore.
We don´t have a suicidal graemlim???
No. I cant say anything else.
Just...no...
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Good googly moogly! 
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I love the way this story is going! I do believe that Lois & Clark's baby will be conceived with lots of love- eventually. Clark knows it and Lois does too -- only she doesn't realize it yet! Oh Lois! pretty please! Get your heart in sync with your head! Can't wait for the next installment!!!!!More! More! 
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feel exhausted after reading it all Cheese and rice, I'm exhausted! Great part, great drama. Yep, I think there's enough love to go around for this baby...with a little more conversation... JD
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Great parts!  Paradoxically in this very unusual situation Lois has the easier decision to make than Clark's: I'll try to explain myself.(not an easy task: I know my English is not very good!) Having a chld means to give: you give a baby to your partner and give love to another little human being; at the same time you receive a child from your partner and love from your child, but into the desire for a baby the principal feeling is the selfless of wish to give, not the selfishness of to want receive. This is a very unusual situation: Lois and Clark are not a couple, and making a baby becomes a necessity to a "selfish" end: to save Clark's life. But Lois can feel her act like a gift (the gift of her body, her time, her energies), even if only unconsciously: she uses the word "sacrifice" probably because she considers helself unselfish enough to make a sacrifice (to privy helself of something), but not enough to give something without feeling heerself deprived. Clark feels himself only as the receiving one, so the decision of making a baby with Lois is felt by him as totally selfish. How are you going to solved this? Will the desire to live be so strong in Clark to overwhelm his feel to be selfish to have the baby whom Lois is so determined to give him? Or perhaps is there a sufficient time to Lois to admit to herself her love for Clark? In this way Lois can understand hers is not a sacrifice but a gift, and Clark's feelings of selfishness would reduce, because he'd have the chance to fulfil Lois' desire to be loved by him for the longest time: he'll be not only on the receiving end. But this solution wouldn't solve the " make a baby together because we have to" situation: it'd be more emotionally acceptable but the coception would be forced under the present circumstances. I'm looking forward to read next parts! Simona  (who, having no children, is probably taking this to give-to take and selfishness-unselfishness stuff in completely wrong way!)
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Absolutely wonderful. First of all, such a great original premise. And secondly, so well told. This could so easily slip off the cliff into overly tragic or maudlin, but instead you have written it so straight forward, yet filled with real emotion.
Favorite part: Dr Klein's explanation that Superman is human, with the exception of this hiccup which allows him to live under a red sun.
Loved Clark's reaction to that. Almost worth being sick in order to learn that. Just brought a lump to my throat.
And I adore full ahead, save the day Lois. My very, very favorite kind.
Post more! And soon!
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You mean we're supposed to have lives?
Oh crap!
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Hi, I know this is late, but RL has been pretty busy for me. I'd just like to say thank you to everyone who has commented so enthusiastically about our story. It really is very much appreciated. Yours Jenni
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*Digs out an old story* "Well, that may be where you have to get creative." So, does Lois still have the costume. The one from PML, of course  Wrong board. Wrong board. She'd do this any way you wanted to. Closet in the news room, stairwell in the Planet, conference room, kitchen counter,... Michael
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