"There's nothing to be sorry about," Gina told her, firmly. "You just got me thinking."

In-vitro... oh, boy. "It's... a way of having children," she said, carefully. "My wife and I obviously can't have any the usual way, so we... there are scientists who can take the part of her that makes a baby, and the part of my cousin Joseph, and then they can put it together and put it in me." She patted her belly. "That's how I got this baby."