Mitch Albom: We have good news! It's a brand-new baby ... something?

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Mitch Albom: We have good news! It's a brand-new baby ... something?
1:25 AM, May. 29, 2011   

BY MITCH ALBOM
DETROIT FREE PRESS COLUMNIST

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2011105290429

It's the first question asked when a baby is about to arrive:

"Boy or girl?"

And in the case of a Toronto couple, the answer has been, essentially, "Whatever."

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Never mind that the question can be answered with one peek down the diaper. What I don't get is the motivation. The parents, in their late 30s, seem to feel a terrible injustice is done by identifying something that goes back to Adam and Eve, namely, well, whether you're an Adam or an Eve.