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Sluggo Written by Mike Resnick He was born in the charity ward at 3:07 a.m. on March 5, 1931. There were two nurses in attendance. The first took one look at him and fainted. The other ran screaming from the room, raced out into the cold Chicago night, and refused ever to come back even to pick up her pay. The doctor who delivered him wanted him destroyed, but as a practicing Catholic he could not bring himself to do so until the baby had been baptized. His parish priest looked at the baby in its incubator, crossed himself, and left. Three more priests refused to baptize the infant, and finally the doctor reluctantly decided to let him live. His mother committed suicide two months later. His father left town a month after that, never to return, and he became a ward of the state. He was placed in an institution for the insane, though there was nothing wrong with his mind. Thirty-seven nurses were offered triple pay if they would care for him. Thirty-three decided that triple pay wasn’t anywhere near enough. The four who
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