"If we feed Sam and Joan here in the hospital, through a tube, they'll keep growing fast, up to a limit. It's your decision what to do. But if you make them older, you won't have crying babies at night, and you can leave them in the house safely."
"But we don't even live together!" said Jim. "We just met today!"
"If you don't have a house, then you can't leave them in it, of course. But they have to be somewhere."
"That doesn't make sense to me," said Sean. "Their bodies may get older, but they aren't going to school or anything. They're not even learning to eat, or talk, or watch TV. They can't learn that in a few days."
"You don't need to learn to watch TV," said Jim.
"Don't talk to the mother of your ch1ld that way," said Sean. "You know what I mean. Doc, tell me, if they're going to get older, will they act older?"
"Well," he explained, "that's one of the benefits of the alien pregnancy aid. You see..."
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