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Marine denied leave to see premature baby daughter
Photo credit: Newsday/Alejandra Villa | Two-week-old Madison Rose Wagenhauser was born more than two months premature. (Oct. 15, 2009)
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The birth came suddenly on Oct. 3, more than two months early, and Cristal Wagenhauser's baby weighed less than three pounds.
But in the days that followed, as little Madison Rose struggled to live, her husband's employer said it could not grant him leave to be at his wife's and daughter's side.
That is because Wagenhauser's husband, Lance Cpl. Keith Wagenhauser, is a member of the U.S....
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