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25th May 2018
04:24pm BST

Sushmas was ordained on the Internet several years ago and decided to step up.
There was just one problem - she'd already been given pain relief ahead of having to push.
"Clearly our stars have all aligned. The only catch: we’d have to move fast, because my epidural is kicking in and you know, labour."
She says she saw the occasion as an opportunity to teach her as-yet unborn son a lesson.
"I was about to bring life into the world and I’ll be damned if this kid didn’t learn that when given the option, he should always choose love. It takes so little to do something kind for someone else.
"A little after midnight, a little loopy, I officiated a wedding in the middle of my hospital room for a beautiful couple.
"The team at Cornell turned it into a celebration – with flowers, a processional and even a reading! One of the nurses wrote a poem! Totally surreal, totally lovely."
Job done, Sushmas coolly got back to the matter at hand and gave birth to baby boy.
"Four hours later, along came Nayan. Seven lbs, 6 ounces, 21 inches, head full of hair, first life lesson already enforced.
"I don’t think it will ever get better than this."
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