"Ok, one more time. Just one more push…"
"Ahh." Was Babsie only response.
"Ok, ok, all done. See? We've got her. We've got her."
Babsie let herself get some of her breath back before reaching out her arms for her newborn twin girls.
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"Twin girls." Babsie murmured. "Every girl I've had has a twin."
"I think you've had more sets of twins than anything else. Or anyone else." Rita commented ruefully.
"I must be prone to having twins. I'm a freak!"
Rita laughed.
"But a happy freak huh?"
Babsie smiled.
"Yes, a very happy freak."
"So, what are their names?"
"Well, this little chicky-babe here is Nova Liberty and this other little chicky-babe is Sapphira Joy."
"Oh I like those."
"Yeah I do too." Babsie grinned. "Sapphira means 'the pretty one', isn't that gorgeous?"
"Yeah." Rita agreed. "What are you going to call them?"
"Probably Joy and Libby, short for Liberty, instead of Elizabeth like it usually is. Just to be different."
"Typical."
"Of course."
"What does Nova mean?"
"New. It's Latin."
Rita looked at her and giggled.
"You named your daughter 'new freedom'?"
Babsie started laughing.
"You know, I didn't realised that until now."