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Vol. I · No. 1Prolonging the Slow Death of NewspapersEst. 2026

Doctor Vasectomy

15 minutes

Quick story: I'm holding the baby and watching the kids run around at the play place at Tampa's International Plaza when the guy sitting next to me asks: "Which ones are yours?"

"Those two," I say. "And this one. But that's it."

"That's it?" he asks.

"Yep. Impossible now."

He thinks for a second.

"Dr. Stein?" he asks.

"Yep," I say. "In and out in 15 minutes."

"Me, too," he says. Then he gives me a fist bump.



Here's Leonora LaPeter Anton: TAMPA



The architect is flat on his back, a paper sheet draped over his lap. His wife wanted him to get a vasectomy after child No. 3. He hesitated. Four months ago, he welcomed child No. 4.



Dr. Doug Stein hovers over him, a bottle of…

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