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    "I’m pregnant," Zosia announces.

    Inside Carol's house, Manousos’s alarm system blares. It's the sound of Asunción’s horns in its busiest streets—sharp taxi hooters bullying bumper to bumper gaps, long wails from buses herding pedestrians, motorcycles honking like it's about to combust if it doesn't get there first. It’s multiple blasts of horns going off at once, playing from Carol’s living room speakers, signalling the time—7:30 a.m. He sucks in a breath and prepares one more world-turning piece of information before it hits 8.

    "You're pregnant", Carol replies, stoically.

    "It's yours, I have it in me. That night, in your room. You said it so beautifully, Carol,” Zosia smiles fully, tears forming in the corners of her eyes.

    What the fuck.

    "I just want to make you happy, Carol. It's all I ever wanted.”

    (or, Manousos wrestles with one atom bomb and thirty different plans to save the world. Carol Sturka unwittingly beats him to it.)

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