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    "id": 4110,
    "subject": "avram davidson treasury",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2003-07-21T15:52:55+00:00",
    "last": "2003-07-22T13:37:56+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0307-3710@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "MBS 808",
        "address": "mbs808 at yahoo.com"
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      "date": "2003-07-21T15:52:55+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) avram davidson treasury",
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          "text": "I'm slowly working my way through this book, that\ncertainly earns the title treasury.\n\nI forget who introduces \"The House The Blakeneys\nBuilt\"\nbut they mention the freemartins breeding and what is\n\"really\" going on in the story ...\n\nUm, how do freemartins breed?\n\nPS - The story reminded me (sorta) of that XFiles\nepisode entitled Home .."
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0307-3716@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Phoebe Davis",
        "address": "meezer_gal at yahoo.com"
      },
      "date": "2003-07-22T13:37:56+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) avram davidson treasury",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0307-3710@digest.urth.net>",
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          "text": "The American Heritage Dictionary says a freemartin is a sterile or otherwise sexually\nimperfect female calf born as the twin of a bull calf.  Several sources say that\nfreemartinism is recognized as one of the most severe forms of sexual abnormality among\ncattle, found references to horses as well. This condition causes infertility in the\nfemale cattle born twin to a male. \n\nPerhaps more detail than necessary:\nAlthough the male twin in this case is only affected by reduced fertility, in over ninety\npercent of the cases, the female twin is completely infertile.  Because of a transfer of\nhormones or a transfer of cells, the heifer's reproductive tract is severely\nunderdeveloped and sometimes even contains some elements of a bull's reproductive tract.\nA freemartin is genetically female, but has many characteristics of a male.  The ovaries\nof the freemartin do not develop correctly, and they remain very small.  Also, the\novaries of a freemartin do not produce the hormones necessary to induce the behavioral\nsigns of heat. The external vulvar region can range from a very normal looking female to\na female that appears to be male.    \n\nIt would appear that freemartins can't breed but are sterile females who can resemble\nmales.  Does this make sense to the story?  I didn't look it up before posting this.\n\nPhoebe"
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          "text": "--- MBS 808 <mbs808 at yahoo.com> wrote:\n\nI'm slowly working my way through this book, that\ncertainly earns the title treasury.\n\nI forget who introduces \"The House The Blakeneys\nBuilt\"\nbut they mention the freemartins breeding and what is\n\"really\" going on in the story ...\n\nUm, how do freemartins breed?\n\nPS - The story reminded me (sorta) of that XFiles\nepisode entitled Home ..\n\n__________________________________\nDo you Yahoo!?\nSBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month!\nhttp://sbc.yahoo.com\n\n-- "
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