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    I'd like to introduce you all to the most amazing, incredible person I've ever had the fortune to meet. Jillian Margaret Harris was born at 5:33PM January 20th, 2006 (3 weeks early). After an incredibly difficult delivery (30 hours, capped with an emergency c-section), the strongest toughest person I've ever seen or heard of, my wife, delivered this truly phenomenal little girl into our lives. Please find attached a couple of photos. For those that are interested, I put some more pictures of Jillian into my wife's blog, which we'll be getting squared away once I get enough time to breathe and look around (almost 1 week and I still haven't had time to call all the family or start visits). I know the nursery looks a little sparse, but I drafted some excellent friends I have and we assembled the furniture, bedding and clothing in an astounding 4 hours Sunday afternoon when Mom & baby were resting. If I'm not around so much anymore, please don't take it personally. A beautiful young lady has stolen my heart away...





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    Before anyone says something that might get them in deep doo-doo, no my daughter is not a hermaphrodite. That yellow thing in the first picture is the clip on the umbilical cord.
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    Don, don't take this personally, but you put too much of your life on the internet. I guess I can understand around here, where the atmosphere is friendy, but I still really think you should be careful about this stuff.

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    Congratulations, man!

    Little Jillian Corleone couldn't have got a finer guy for a dad.
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    Congratulations Don!! She's a li'l darlin'.
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    I don't take it personally Zorba. I've thought about what you say before, and at the end of the day, I figure how is announcing her birth online any more or less risky then announcing her birth in the newspaper (which unless I'm mistaken, you don't get much say over). I appreciate the concern.
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    Have I really said that before? I need to lay off the grass...

    Anyway, congratulations.

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    Let's see you get 2 hours of sleep a night for a week and how good your typing skills are. I meant "I hear what you are saying (now) and I have thought of that before". You raise a valid concern, but at the end of the day, if some whack job wants to find you, they will. You can't live your life around what they might do. And I guess you've never seen me post in one of the Backroom 2nd ammendment threads. Let's just say ours wouldn't be the best house to try to break into.

    Thank you Zorba, Louis & Greg.
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    Many congrats Don !!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zorba
    I need to lay off the grass...

    Anyway, congratulations.

    Really? No way.




    Congrats on your daugther Don. I wish many happy years to your family.



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    Ah, congratulations Don. She looks a lot like you as well.
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    Well done Good Sir!
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    She's cute, nice job !
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    Baby Corleone?

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    Zorba, the thread is times and times more meaningful than "What is Saddam doing right now? YES RIGHT NOW!" and the likes. The community here feels like a "community" indeed rather than where a bunch of time wasters gather - at least it seems so to me. So, I see no reason why DC wouldn't share his happiness with us.

    Don, congrats to you, greetings and wishes of quick recovery from such hard hours to Mrs. Corleone, and kisses to the little Bellucci.


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    Congratulations Don. It couldn't have happened to a nicer bloke.
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    Congrats Don! I'm glad everything turned out well and good luck with your new daughter!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Don Corleone
    Thank you Zorba, Louis & Greg.


    Well, I do see your point... I guess this is better, and one helluva lot nicer, than the average backrom thread. I think my issue just comes from the way I was raised; in my father's family (Irish, by the way) people really dodn't talk about any personal business outside of the family.

    (But what is this Zorba, Louis and Greg business? I don't know any Louis or Greg...)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Zorba

    (But what is this Zorba, Louis and Greg business? I don't know any Louis or Greg...)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Zorba
    But what is this Zorba, Louis and Greg business? I don't know any Louis or Greg...
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    (But what is this Zorba, Louis and Greg business? I don't know any Louis or Greg...)
    Zorba, take a nap mate

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    Ah, the alien invasion has started! Run for the hills!
    Congratulations Don and good luck for the future with your little one!
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    Now there is a thing of beauty. Congratulations, Don!
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    Congratulations!

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    Don, those photos are lovely - Jillian is a beauty and has such intelligent eyes.

    Congratulations! I am very happy for you and your wife.

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    Congrats from Papewaio, Wasabi and Babywaio.
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    All the best Don to you and yours.

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    Congrats man. I really like these threads, I mean who wouldn't cheer up seeing a baby? Nice thing that people like Lemur and Don brighten up the tavern .

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