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PEST Claims First Victim

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We have our first fatality attributed to the scourge of PEST (Post Election Selection Trauma): Chicago Sun-Times - Obituaries. (Hat tip: Ted.)

Herbert M. Hazelkorn, DDS, PhD Herbert M. Hazelkorn, of Glencoe, Illinois, left us on December 7, 2004, of a broken heart at the recent passing of his wife of 35 years, Bobby, exacerbated by a broken spirit arising from the results of the Presidential election.

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