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#1 My parents were married in December 1983, and their marriage was soon fruitful. They had five daughters, all girls, and my father was beginning to lose hope that there would be a son.
#2 The Meisels family was extremely strict about how their daughters wore their tights, and my mother's wedding day was no exception. My mother went into labor on the final day of the Jewish High Holy Days season, and she and my father rushed to the hospital.
#3 My parents were overjoyed when I was born a boy, but my early birth had physical consequences that required five blood transfusions. My parents rushed to secure blood from the Jewish blood bank to prevent the use of non-Jewish blood.
#4 I was born in 1980, and my parents were very excited about having a son. But when I started showing signs of being a girl, my parents had me circumcised on the eighth day of my life, as the Bible commands.
