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10-Ounce Miracle Baby

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Amillia Taylor is a miracle baby; she was just 10 ounces at birth and was the length of a ballpoint pen. Doctors at the Baptist Children's Hospital in Miami held little hope for her survival. No premature baby born under 22-weeks had previously survived. But little Amillia proved the doctors wrong and nearly four months after her birth, she's going home.

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