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From: dawn@prism.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Orphaned Response
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Date: Tue, 1-Oct-85 22:17:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  1 22:17:00 1985
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	I retract part of my earlier posting -- I inadvertently treated
	the net to a bit of the Stockbridge-family folklore!  (My mother
	confessed...I have been misled!) 

	In fact, the chord is clamped and cut after the infant takes
	its first breath. The clamp is removed after 24 hours; the stump
	dries up and falls off a few days later. (Alcohol is sometimes 
	used to hasten the drying and fight off infection.)

	I now no longer claim to know why some people have in-ys and others
	have out-ys. Does anyone else? 


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"Knowing is not enough: We must apply.  Willing is not enough: We must do.
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