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CRADLE AND ALL

Kathleen Beavier is having a bad day. The pretty, preppy, rich 16-year-old has meandered through the unfamiliar mean streets of South Boston in search of a women’s medical center and, it would seem, a date with an abortion doctor. Which doesn’t make much sense since pretty, preppy, rich 16-year-old Kathleen is also chaste.
That she finds the doctor dangling lifelessly from a crude noose is “Omen”-esque enough; that Kathleen is then compelled by “The Voice” to carve into a couple of the doc’s veins is downright frightening. Someone’s just a tad half-baked in Beantown.
Or maybe not. Meet the equally chaste Colleen Deirdre Galaher of Maam Cross, Ireland. She’s 14, fair as they come, slightly freckled ... and quite pregnant. Apparently “The Voice” is heard overseas, too.
Holy Moses!
Or more like it, Holy Mary Mother of God! By all accounts -- scientific and anecdotal -- the Earth is verging on two virgin births. In the meantime, a series of unexplained epidemics a...

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