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You’ll never believe where blood is made – The Nameless Virtue

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Okay, so you might just know the answer to this one. If so, I think it could still be fun to imagine you don’t, and play along. I was once chatting with a friend who knew a lot about biology. I don’t remember what we were talking about, but perhaps it was things like endocrine glands, which are just little organ blobs who are responsible for making hormones. And I remember wondering out loud to her, “oh, yeah, …and where is blood made? Presumably there’s just some organ whose job it is to make blood? I feel like I would have heard of it…” and she responded, “Oh, you didn’t know? Blood is made in the bones.” And then my brain exploded with incredulity and objections (and also fascination and wonder, because I immediately believed her).1 I was like, WHAT? Made in the WHERE? Why??? I think my friend must have put on a big grin and thought “this is going to be a fun time“. Because, it is true that blood is made in the bones, so all of these questions have answers. Some of them she knew, an

This is my post for day 26 of the Inkhaven writing retreat. Okay, so you might just know the answer to this one. If so, I think it could still be fun to imagine you don’t, and play along. I was once chatting with a friend who knew a lot about biology. I don’t remember what we were talking about, but perhaps it was things like endocrine glands, which are just little organ blobs who are responsible for making hormones. And I remember wondering out loud to her, “oh, yeah, …and where is blood made? Presumably there’s just some organ whose job it is to make blood? I feel lik

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