By Marie Betz
This is a story about a baby who was not breastfed.
 This baby was bottle fed, and was already three years old. From the time he
was an infant his mother plopped a pacifier in his mouth. The pacifier
became so engorged from sucking on it for so long. Whenever the mother
tried to "wean" him onto a newer one, he balked.
The mother and father decided they needed a night out and asked a cousin to
sit with their 3-year-old. The cousin took one look at the ugly misshapen
pacifier and thought it was disgusting, and that it was time for the kid to
be weaned off it.
They were re paving the road leading to their house, and the macadam was not
yet poured down, only the huge gravel was in place. The baby-sitting
cousin opened the front door and tossed the pacifier as far away as she
could manage. Then the bedlam started. The baby screamed and screamed and screamed, and
nothing would satisfy him.
When the parents returned around 1 AM, their son was still screaming, and
the baby-sitter's boyfriend, and four neighbors were all out in the street,
with flashlights, trying to find the blasted pacifier.
Now, if the mother had breastfed the baby no one would toss her breast out
into the dark night!
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