Elsewhere he has written about the impact of local-council cuts, a couple mourning a stillborn child and the creation of a community playground out of scrap materials.
And I know that, you know, even when we had Amanda Holden on the second series talking about Theo, her son who was sadly born stillborn at seven months, and she still talks about him a lot now.
So that's why I think in this passage he says, a stillborn is better off than the person that can't even enjoy the good things that this person has because meaning is already excluded.
When that happens, we usually say that the other twin was " stillborn" (one word) which we use to describe babies that were dead even before the other twin was born.
Ultimately, she signs the contract anyway when Parker coos about Elvis having the strength of two men, a knowing reference to Elvis' stillborn twin brother Jesse.