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PEOPLE HAVE BEEN asking me the same question for a while. Feel weepy yet? Any tears? So I check the pregnancy book, the one I am too chicken to read without partially covering my eyes, and discover that many women at this stage of pregnancy become hormonally tearful at the slightest provocation. But no, I wasn't weepy. I was finding things funnier than ever, writes Róisín Ingle.
The unmissable Vincent Browne on TV3, for example, had me in nightly fits of giggles with his pithy put downs of self-important politicians. In contrast, even while watching the marvellously depressing Dickens drama Little Dorrit I couldn't muster a good weep. Yet again I was struck by the feeling that I wasn't doing this pregnancy thing right.
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