The Giver

why is mother so appalled when Lilly suggests she'd like to be a birth-mother?

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chapter 03

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Lily is enchanted by Gabe and hopes that she will be assigned as a Birthmother, since she likes newchildren and has heard that Birthmothers live pleasant, easy lives. Mother, however, notes that after three births, they become laborers until they enter the House of the Old.

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