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Marine dad meets baby girl for first time
Quick Read"I saw her and I was like jelly," said Lance Cpl. Keith Wagenhauser, who spent time with his daughter Friday.
Photo credit: Newsday/Alejandra Villa | Marine Lance Cpl. Keith Wagenhauser and his wife Cristal with their baby daughter Madison Rose a day after Keith returned home from active duty.
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Lance Cpl. Keith Wagenhauser, who spent the first three weeks of his daughter's life aboard a ship full of Marines, spent Friday afternoon gently stroking his infant daughter at Stony Brook University Medical Center's neonatal intensive care unit.
He caressed her head. Ran his fingers along her back. Dabbed away a speck of spittle from the corner of her birdlike mouth.
"It takes the...
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