Something missing

A little girl has her twin growing inside her ( this is known as fetus in fetu)
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She will have surgery, the fetus will be removed and she will then become a womb twin survivor. No one will recognise that this loss will have a psychological effect on her. The effect may not be significant and ashe may have a happy life. Probably she will never say a word to anyone but there will always be a strange sense of something missing. Sher may work it out for herself but people will laugh at her when she says she is "missing" a growth that once existed inside her.

No one will suggest that the body parts of her lost twin are disposed of with respect, as now happens after miscarriage. The fetus will probably be preserved in formalin and languish in a lab for decades.

I recently received an email about a woman who had ovarian cysts and a teratoma (which is like a fetus in fetu but less organised and developed into human form) and she said:

I never knew I was one of a twin until about 10 years ago when I had a scan showing ovarian cysts which were later proved to be dermoid and teratoma. I have researched the symptoms of womb twin survivors and I am amazed and relieved to know that there is an explanation for how I feel.....

This little girl may benefit one day from the book I am writing, for that will explain it all. So, back to work at my keyboard and let's get it done soon.....