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The people who saved Baby Adair, Brendan Jay Adair was what's called a textbook preemie--born 13 weeks early weighing about 3 1/2 pounds -- but it was love as much as science that saved him
The people who saved Baby Adair, Brendan Jay Adair was what's called a textbook preemie--born 13 weeks early weighing about 3 1/2 pounds -- but it was love as much as science that saved him

The people who saved Baby Adair, Brendan Jay Adair was what's called a textbook preemie--born 13 weeks early weighing about 3 1/2 pounds -- but it was love as much as science that saved him

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  • The people who saved Baby Adair, Brendan Jay Adair was what's called a textbook preemie--born 13 weeks early weighing about 3 1/2 pounds -- but it was love as much as science that saved him.
  • The people who saved Baby Adair, Brendan Jay Adair was what's called a textbook preemie--born 13 weeks early weighing about 3 1/2 pounds -- but it was love as much as science that saved him
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Original Toronto Star caption: The people who saved Baby Adair, Brendan Jay Adair was what's called a textbook preemie--born 13 weeks early weighing about 3 1/2 pounds -- but it was love as much as science that saved him.
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      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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      Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
      Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0028663F
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      Going home, Baby Brendan Adair goes home to Midland with mother Pat after a three-month stay in the Hospital for Sick Children. He was rushed to the h(...)
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      Dutton, Don
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      Treasure Trove: Sales agent Joanne Haliman and quarry chief Beven Ratcliffe stand in the Adair Marble Quarry, as a worker fits marble blocks on to a house in Torono's luxury Castle Hill development
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      Bull, Ron
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      Goode, Jeff
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      It's a Butcher shop, not a pet shop, and that bunny who shows no anxiety as to what's ahead of him is being weighed for food. He's a little over three pounds
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      Loek, Dick
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      Ballet baby premieres. National Ballet principal dancer Tomas Schramek and his wife, Corps de Ballet dancer. Deborah Todd pose with their first child, baby girl Julia, 10 pounds, born last Friday
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      Lerner, Michael
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