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Baby Borrowers - We Only Wish They Were Kidding! 
blogs.webmd.com | by Nancy Davis, Safety4Kids(noreply@blogger.com) | Thu, Oct 16
Thu, Oct 16
Here's the good news: we can still be shocked and disgusted. We have not been so conditioned to reality television that we can accept anything thrown at us by the networks. Fortunately, we are not alone. Here's a paragraph from The New York Times:
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