If you follow the links to Bennett's paper, the child had severe failure to thrive. The only way that you wouldn't notice that your child was in the third percentile -- when you're an experienced parent, which Maggiore was -- is that you chose not to notice it.
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more pronounced all along than we're being led to believe
Date: 2007-04-28 02:54 am (UTC)