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Sixteen Kids and a Hit Man

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Today’s truly wild read, by James D. Walsh, involves multiple levels of incomprehensible behavior. First: A couple out West decides to have 11 children. (Okay, I personally don’t want that many kids, but I sort of understand the people who do.) Second: The couple decides to adopt a set of five siblings. (That’s a staggering jump.) Third: The biological parents of those five kids hang onto a sixth — and then give birth to a seventh and an eighth. (What!) Fourth: The dad in the original family tries to hire a hit man to murder the adopted kids’ parents. (!?!?) Fifth: The mom is still caring for the entire brood! I edited it and I’m still speechless. It’s one of our craziest stories of the year.

—Nick Summers, features editor, New York

Sixteen Kids and a Hit Man Christopher Pence kept adding to his family. Then he decided to remove two people from the mix.

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