According to variations of the same story here, here and here, maternity wards in Germany are planning for an unprecedented number of births in April. The theory goes that there is a direct correlation between the pregnancies and the World Cup, which occurred nine months previous to the due dates in question and thus coincided with conception. Although it may well stoke the flames of speculation, rumor and intimation, I will confirm only that I was in Germany for six days during the World Cup traveling from city to city, one of which was Cologne, the city where the midwife quoted in the article works. The rest I leave to your prurient imaginations.
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Well, if you are going to leave it to my prurient imagination, then I will not be surprised if there are two or three children born in Germany in April with lovely eye lashes, an olive complexion, innate negotiation skills, and an irrepressible urge to break things when mad.
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