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Old 01-Sep-2008, 11:25
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'In the mean time I was talking to a private doctor. I told her all my symptoms - she hadn't even seen me - and straight away she said this has been here for a long time. It was a case of being 2B+ - it's gone out of the womb and into the blood stream now.
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'In the mean time I was talking to a private doctor. I told her all my symptoms - she hadn't even seen me - and straight away she said this has been here for a long time. It was a case of being 2B+ - it's gone out of the womb and into the blood stream now.
It means immediately
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