Sperm cells, even among taxonomically-related species, differ amazingly in response to cryoprotectant, cooling, freezing and the many osmotic stresses associated with the entire cryo-process.

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[…] instead of taking a “leap in the dark” — a mistake which impulsive young men sometimes make in other relations of life, as well as in quartz reefings.

I recall the taste of the rain, sweet and toothachingly cold; the tiny blows of drops striking my eyelids; my halfbrother's laughter rippling in my ears.