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Thumb-Sucking as a Cause for Intervention

NPR
Published July 7, 2004 at 11:00 PM CDT

Commentator David Shenk is disappointed that Theresa Heinz Kerry decided to try and stop John Edwards' son Jack from sucking his thumb at the Democratic photo-op in Pittsburgh, Penn.

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