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... but the doctor decided to induce labor, because he was leaving on a 3-week vacation. (This was back in the day when this was not only done quite frequently for reasons of convenience, but he felt he could actually admit this to my folks!)
As mentioned earlier, I did come out a bit small ... I guess we'll never know how much of this (and my struggles with bronchitis, etc.) may have been connected. Luckily for me, I was born in Canada rather than 30 min away in Buffalo or Fort Erie ... and Medicare had been introduced a few years earlier ... so my dad didn't have to rely on a novice teacher's salary to pay my medical bills.
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