Medical Mystery Wrapped in Skin
The medical staff exchanged puzzled looks, their expressions fraught with many questions they hardly dared voice. How could Angela, a Nigerian woman with dark skin, give birth to a child so inexplicably fair? It wasn’t long before the interrogations began.
Doctors who veiled their incredulity with professional decorum asked her deeply personal questions about her spouse’s ethnicity and family histories they could scarcely believe would be relevant. Yet they were determined to unravel this mystery that defied genetics, challenged preconceptions, and seemed to mock medical science itself.
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