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Happy New Year, baby: Two cousins were the first Clovis babies of 1980

It was New Year’s Eve, 1980. Kerry Parks called her mom around midnight to tell her that her water broke. That’s when she got the news.

Her then sister-in-law, Francee Garcia, was already at the hospital, and she was also in labor.

“When she told me...