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Wow ML, I really enjoyed your take on childbirth with Lois and Clark. This brought back memories about when my daughters were born. I remember quite clearly how mad I was at their father for causing all of this trouble. My oldest just turned 18! How quickly the time goes by. It's great to see you posting here. I just read your last epic, "Curiosity Killed the Reporter", from the archives and loved the plot. I have been enjoying my vacation and your writing has been a major part of that  Write on! Anne (One of your biggest fans)
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I read this again, ML, and I still love it. You've really got that hard-nosed, sarcastic Lois here. And here's my all-time favourite part, Why did he have to sound so much like a cheerleader anyway? What did he want her to do - catch the football and win the Stanley Cup or whatever the big prize was called? What was he going to say next? ‘Lois. Lois. She’s our man. If she can’t do it, no one can.’ “Argg,” she groaned pushing as hard as she could until she finally collapsed back onto the bed.  gerry
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Great little story ML, it brings back *shudder* too many memories!  So sweet, I can imagine Clark just brimming with love..  ~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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That was a great fanfic. There's very few vignette I like, but I love this one. It was so sweet and funny. I loved it. Thank You for posting. Why was the nurse giving Lois’ child to that man? Didn’t she know he was the villain in this piece? He responsible for all of this. Yet he wasn’t the one who had been forced to push something the size of a bowling ball from his body! He’d contributed a moment’s pleasure to the creation of this new life. Nothing more! This was her child!
Lois’ internal rant suddenly ended and her insides unexpectedly turned to mush when she observed the extreme tenderness on Clark’s face as he looked down into the face of his newborn son for the first time. So adorable !
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Hey, guys. Don't have time to say much at the moment, but I just wanted to pop by to see what you all thought of my little fic before heading out of town for the next few days. Glad to see that you're enjoying it. I'll see you when I get back to say more. ML 
She was in such a good mood she let all the pedestrians in the crosswalk get to safety before taking off again.
- CC Aiken, The Late Great Lois Lane
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Heh So Lois of Lois! Nice story, ML. See ya, AnnaBtG.
What we've got here is failure to communicate...
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Wow, you could knock me over with a feather when I looked at the boards. ML actually posted a *story*!!! And I loved it. The first line made me blink a few times, but it was a definite hook. And it followed through wonderfully. 
"You need me. You wouldn't be much of a hero without a villain. And you do love being the hero, don't you. The cheering children, the swooning women, you love it so much, it's made you my most reliable accomplice." -- Lex Luthor to Superman, Question Authority, Justice League Unlimited
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Why did he have to sound so much like a cheerleader anyway? What did he want her to do - catch the football and win the Stanley Cup or whatever the big prize was called? What was he going to say next? ‘Lois. Lois. She’s our man. If she can’t do it, no one can.’ “Argg,” she groaned pushing as hard as she could until she finally collapsed back onto the bed. Hilarious! I just had to roll in laughter over this rant. Christ, I'm never having kids.  JD
"Meg...who let you back in the house?" -Family Guy
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I'll second Gerry - this is still fun the second time through, ML.  The rants are so Lois, and so is her easy succumbing to Clark's devious sweetness - beware men with ice chips. c
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She looked up at him, tears congregating in the corners of her eyes. “It wasn’t so bad, Clark,” she said, before looking back with love at her newborn son. WHAT!?! Cute post ML!  TEEEEEEEJ/having flashback shudders over her own 11.9 pound li'l darlin'
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Holy crow TJ! 11.9 pounds!What did you have a toddler? Anyway nice little story and yes Clark has lost his mind to be bringing up number three when number 2 is just entering the world. Laura
Clark: “If we can be born in an instant, and die in an instant, why can’t we fall in love in an instant?”
Caroline's "Stardust"
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This was a fun story! I liked seeing Lois and Clark's future, and I thought both Clark's wanting a baby (cute puppy-dog eyes) and Lois's uncertainties (and the way she dealt with labor) were very in-character. Bad idea for Clark to mention the possibility of a third right after she's finished #2, though! Should wait until she's got a preschooler and a toddler and is remembering the infant days more fondly. Also, should actually do all the midnight feedings when possible, so that she *does* have some fond memories of the infant days.
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I think it's ML who has lost their mind. Why don't we have a retching icon? Tank (who wonders how any sane, caring man could put a woman through that kind of ordeal)
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Count me in with Karen on the "ML posted shock factor"!! And what a post! This was a great story, ML!! (Not that I'm surprised... haven't read anything of yours that I didn't love)!! I loved the switchbacks from memories to present time! Sara (who still needs to read the Curiousity story when she gets time...)
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Wonderful! I think my uterus is clenching in sympathy! I think the main reason men survive childbirth is the mommy is too wiped to kill 'im. I loved the switchbacks from memories to present time! Yes, very well done. May there be many more ML fics posted here!
Do you know the most surprising thing about divorce? It doesn't actually kill you, like a bullet to the heart or a head-on car wreck. It should. When someone you've promised to cherish till death do you part says, "I never loved you," it should kill you instantly.
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Hi ML. Just want to join the others and say I loved this funny, yet sweet vignette. It was just so Lois and Clark! Yours Jenni
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Yea! I knew Tank would like it! Yes, such memories! So very real! If only Clark could feel pain. But then we forget and forgive. Great story, ML. Post more here!  Artemis
History is easy once you've lived it. - Duncan MacLeod
Writing history is easy once you've lived it. - Artemis
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Hi, Cute! 
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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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ML,
LMAO! Great Story. I Loved it. Glad you posted.
Rach
Me: what are you looking at *Snatches pic* OMFG! Dean smeared in peanut butter?! WTF?!
Sara: LMAO it was chocolate!! smeared in chocolate!
Me: LMFAO chocolate smeared in chocolate!
Sara: LMAO the *chocolate* isn't smeared in chocolate!
Me: that's the way i read it. was trying to picture chocolate smeared in chocolate
Sara: ROTFLMAO
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ML I'm glad to see you posting here. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Tricia
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