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Personal Injury Lawyer Stars In Toddler's Birthday Party
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DAVID GREENE, HOST:
Good morning. I'm David Greene. We know it's hard to choose the theme for a kid's birthday party, Spiderman, maybe trains, or maybe Morris Bart, personal injury lawyer.
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MORRIS BART: I represent people injured by no fault of their own.
GREENE: A 2-year-old in Louisiana named Grayson perks up whenever this commercial comes on, so his parents threw him a Morris Bart birthday party, complete with Morris Bart's face on a cake and also a T-shirt. Morris Bart, sadly, could not come, but his office did send an 8-by-10 portrait. You're listening to MORNING EDITION. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
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