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Commentary: A celebrity, a pregnancy loss, and a call for humanity

I first heard about Chrissy Teigen and John Legend’s pregnancy loss on the radio. When I went to Ms. Teigen’s Twitter page to confirm whether what I’d heard was true, my heart sank. There was a black-and-white photo of her sitting on the edge of the bed, face awash with pain. Then I read the tweet:

“We are shocked and in the kind of deep pain you only hear about, the kind of pain we’ve never felt before. ... 

“We never decide on our babies’ names until the last possible moment after they’re born, just before we leave the hospital.

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