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[Michael Bailey]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 5:47 PM,  <malignd at aol.com> wrote:
> We are not all the semi-famous Baby Tyrone who was handed over to be the
> subject of experimentation.  Certanly I wasn't.  You, I don 't know ...
>
> We are all experimented on as children.
>

well, as a lad, my cousin experimented on me by putting my finger in a
vise and tightening it until I got a blood blister.  Setting a
lifelong pattern, I stood there amiably and bemusedly, almost savoring
the feeling, until he tired of the experiment and opened the vise.

Somehow our parents got word of it - I don't remember making a fuss -
and he was administered gentle verbal correction -- another
experiment, nobody knows how that sort of thing will turn out, but he
grew up to be a kindly adult with whom I converse fearlessly.