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Sat 08 Aug 2008Lucky start in life for baby Xinyue
CHINA:WANG XINYUE is one of the luckiest girls in China, and she's only two hours old. She emerged ahead of schedule at Beijing Maternity Hospital yesterday afternoon on the eighth day of the eighth month of the eighth year of the new millennium - an Olympic baby with all the eights aligned. You don't get luckier than that in China.
"I hope when she grows up she takes part in the Olympics," said proud father Wang Yongbing, as her mother Huang Yin ignored the crowds in the hospital to gaze at her auspicious bundle of joy.
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