"I have been coming here every day since the earthquake, but until now I have no information about my wife, " Tatsuya tells me.

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But if someone asks you, and you say: 'Oh no, I have a wife, ' you're done, it's clear, you can do whatever you want.

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For example, I occasionally do some basic handyman work around the house. (Very occasionally, says my wife.) But I have no feel for it.

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"There is no way, if my wife hadn't insisted, I would have gone to the hospital, " von Lipinski said.

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The sight of a baby - no, a person - emerging from my wife is the most incredible thing I have ever seen, and I feel privileged to have seen it.

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It should be no surprise when I tell you that my mother is Danish and my wife's family have German ancestry and we were also put out in a pram as babies.

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