Article: LEAP DAY BABIES HAVE FEWER CANDLES ON THEIR CAKES.(News)

Byline: Kevin Eigelbach Post staff reporter

Mary Merrill is expecting that her first great-grandchild will be born this weekend.

She particularly hopes the child will arrived Sunday, her own birthday.

It's a day that comes around only once every four years.

Merrill, of the Cincinnati neighborhood of Winton Place, was born 84 years ago on Leap Day, that extra day that sneaks into the calendar once every 1,460 days.

"It's really nice having a birthday on Leap Day, because it seems like everybody remembers your birthday," she said.

That doesn't translate into more presents, she said, but "it's nice that people are so ...

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