The two Nurturers unwrapped the blankets and laid the identical newborns on the bed.
They were naked. Jonas could see that they were males. He watched, fascinated,
as his father gently lifted one and then the other to the scale and weighed them.
He heard his father laugh. “Good,” his father said to the woman.
“I thought for a moment that they might both be exactly the same. Then we’d have a problem.
But this one,” he handed one, after rewrapping it, to his assistant, “is six pounds even.
So you can clean him up and dress him and take him over to the Center.”
The woman took the newchild and left through the door she had entered.
Jonas watched as his father bent over the squirming newchild on the bed.
“And you, little guy, you’re only five pounds ten ounces. A shrimp!”
“That’s the special voice he uses with Gabriel,” Jonas remarked, smiling.
“Watch,” The Giver said. “Now he cleans him up and makes him comfy,” Jonas told him. “He told me.”
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