The nine-month caper

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Vale tudo (Portuguese pronunciation: vali tudu) is an unarmed, full-contact combat sport with relatively few rules. It became popular in Brazil during the 20th century. It uses techniques from many martial arts. Vale tudo is the precursor of mixed martial art. The word means “anything goes”.

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Coming of Age in Samoa is a book by American anthropologist Margaret Mead based upon her research and study of youth – primarily adolescent girls – on the island of Ta'u in the Samoan Islands. The book details the sexual life of teenagers in Samoan society in the early 20th century, and theorizes that culture has a leading influence on psychosexual development.First published in 1928, the book launched Mead as a pioneering researcher and as the most famous anthropologist in the world.

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This will be negated in the sequel novel (The real-gone girls), where Steve gets a cesarean abortion in Switzerland, obviously soon enough in his pregnancy. (Bob 2018)

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