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Article: HICCUP! PLENTY OF 'CURES' SAID TO END PESKY SPASMS

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September 6, 1988
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THIS ELECTRONIC VERSION MAY DIFFER SLIGHTLY FROM THE PRINTED VERSION. Lynne McClintock is a reporter for the Morning Star in Wilmington, N.C.

Hiccup! Excuse me, please. It happens to everyone at some time or another.

An attack of the hiccups sneaks up at the most inopportune moments - during job interviews, first dates, whenever a good impression is the goal.

"It's embarrassing," said Dr. Brian Kornblatt of Cape Fear Memorial Hospital in Wilmington, N.C.

Darret Ezzell of Wilmington agreed. He remembers a first date when he got the hiccups as he was walking the girl to the front door.

It ruined a first kiss.

"She told me to put a bag over my head," Ezzell recalled.

So much for romance ...

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