Family with 18 kids at home brings home #19

Meet the Duggars, if you haven't already

June 29, 2010 at 6:06PM
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)
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AP Photo (� AP/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

If you've been following the Duggars case, you may know this; if not, this may explain why people use the word "duggars" to describe large families - which, to be fair, is "three or four kids" for many people unsympathetic to the pleasures of children. But there's a difference between four or five . . . and one short of a score. The stars of a TLC reality show have a new twist to their story:

So I'm guessing they're as opposed to vaccination as they are, say, birth control.

Did the hospital punch her card on the way out? After 19 children, the 20th is free.

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