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On a late August day in 2003, John Kruse and Gary Beuschel flew with grim urgency from San Francisco, where they live, to Anchorage, where their daughters were soon to be born more than three months premature at Providence Alaska Medical Center. It wasn't supposed to happen that way. Cathy, their surrogate, was supposed to give birth to healthy baby girls in San Francisco in December, when they were due. Instead, Veronica and Zola were born at 26 weeks, weighing less than two lbs each, with a tenuous grasp on life... Zola and Veronica were so premature, their brains were still developing the circuitry required for managing the basic functions of life. Their lungs were so immature, they couldn't breathe without help. They couldn't see or hear. They couldn't eat or drink. They couldn't survive at room temperature. Zola and Veronica were on a journey of survival, and required highly-specialized around-the-clock care in order to make it... Papa and Daddy and Babies in Alaska is the story..