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Hope delivered: Baby conceived to cure Katie is born

"It's a boy!" says obstetrician Brian McKenna.

At 5 p.m. on May 4, 2005, Christopher Thomas Trebing -- at nine pounds, one ounce, the biggest of the three Trebing children -- enters the world at St. Catherine of Siena Medical Center in Smithtown.

"Do you want to cut the umbilical cord?" McKenna asks Steve.

"No," Steve answers, too afraid to do anything that might diminish the...

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