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    Third Letter to My Daughter

    ELIZABETH ANNE GEIB 18 weeks, One Day My Dearest Elizabeth Anne, Elizabeth! Finally, I can call you by name! My second daughter, Elizabeth Anne Geib. It is now some two months since we were informed that we were to have another girl. As the doctor told me this I felt a bit dazed, immediately having a vision of myself in fifteen years: a household with two teenaged daughters, a wife, with myself retreating to my “man cave” in the garage to life weights. “Death by estrogen!” one friend joked with me. I also had a moment’s sadness when I realized I would most likely never have a son. My family…