European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 12, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 20 the stars and stripes monday december 12,1994 Ann admits she blew another one today s crossword dear friends More than 10,000 readers can t be wrong. That is approximately the number of letters i have received complaining about the answer i gave to the widowed father of an 8-year-old boy whose twin sister had died at birth or so he was told by the Hospital authorities. The boy you will recall enrolled in a new school. After the first Day he came Home and told his father there was a girl in his class named eve who looked very much like him Blond hair Blue eyes and that she was Borri on the same Day arid in the same Hospital that he was. Soon after the father at tended a school function and met eve s parents. They were both of dark complexion Brown eyed and obviously of Mediterranean extraction. The Man wrote i am now convinced that eve is my daughter but i Don t know How to go about proving  he added i can t afford to hire a lawyer. What should i do i told him that he could be right but to take the child from the Only parents she had Ever known would be extremely disruptive and that he should leave Well enough alone. I realize now that my response was Stu pid. Here Are som of my readers responses. From Helen a leave Well enough alone you say Are you out of your mind that father should go Ann Landers on dear Abby i m writing As a follow up to your column on the great american  people die As a result of smoking while others manage to live Long and productive lives. In my Case quit smoking the Day i found out that i had cancer of the Tongue. During the course of a year i had Cobalt radiation Indium implants twice plus two major surgeries to remove my Tongue and left jaw. Due to the exper Tise of my surgeon almost 17 years later i am Here to write this letter. As a result of my smoking have no sense of smell and i lost about 90 percent of my Abil Ity to taste. I have one half of a lower jaw no Teeth although i do have an upper Den Tureand it takes me Art hour to eat an average meal. What has kept me going positive thinking. Also have become a health nut and if i told you How Many vitamins i take daily you would t believe me. I Wal two to five Miles a Day rain or Shine because of me nearly 100 people have quit  it took was for them to take a look into my Gor quibble dear Abby i just Coomo oot that t duty of ev6 and the Ftp too Bap. 6ut Voo should mag the w5t of it Vou la 66 out the cute All by to of Sitf. You la  Reluct Woof that s ri6kt. Fwd 6c0ed. I Dolda fat in our tx�3m t Kitiuk thai was Fri my to  m5gifts, to Fie we. My of a How by to left Jim to the police immediately and Check out a few  example did anyone see the twin the Hospital staff said died was there proof that she was cremated if eve s Mother was a maternity patient the Day the twins were born the Hospital should have a record of it. Did he Check this out if she was could her own baby be the one that died and Blond eve substituted i see a Lotof unanswered questions Here. Boisey Idaho i could t believe your column about the twins. How did the present parents of the Little girl acquire the child did they adopt her did the Hospital accidentally or intentionally switch babies at the time of birth this is entirely possible. I d look into it. Tampa Fla i am a registered nurse with experience in obstetrics. Before leaving the delivery room every baby is tagged usually with two bracelets. Even so unless those babies were never removed from the Mother s room there is a real possibility that a switch could have taken place. Sometimes this is done if a child is defective and of course there is Money involved. I that baby was born alive there should be some record of what caused her death. By Law these records have Tobe maintained for 18 years. If they Are not available somebody is hiding something. Vista Calif the letter from that father made me want to scream. My husband and i Are fair skinned americans looking for a mexican Newborn to adopt. We Don t wan anyone coming up to us a few years Down the Road saying that s our daughter. We thought she was dead.". Letters to Ann Landers should be addressed to her at . Box 11562, Chi Cago Iii. 60611-0562. C creators Syndicate Genus Mouth. To those who continue to smoke two packs or More Aday try to imagine what it s like to have no Tongue keep smoking and you May find out Howard Singer  thank you for the powerful warning you sounded by sharing your experience. It also gives me a Chance to warn my readers about another tobacco related pitfall. In 1994, the . Surgeon general reported that More than 3 million teen agers smoke cigarettes. In addition 20 percent of male High school students now regularly use chewing or smokeless tobacco. The Federal Cen Ter for substance abuse prevention reports that the number of 12 to 17-year-Olds who smoke has not declined and the use of chewing tobacco is gaining popu Larity. Experts in addictions fear that if we do not curb the use of smokeless tobacco by our Young people the rate of Oral cancer will skyrocket Over the next decade or two. And it should not be assumed that teens arc merely substituting one life threatening practice for an other in the surgeon general s report 43 percent of male High school seniors who use smokeless tobacco products also smoke cigarettes. Young people ask not for whom the Bell tolls it tolls for Tecc. Letters for this column should be addressed to dear Abby at . Box 447, mount Morris in. 61054. 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