MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
MERRITT S. DEITZ, Jr., Bankruptcy Judge.
For the first time under the new Bankruptcy Code we are asked to consider "undue hardship" as an affirmative defense in a suit seeking to have a federally-guaranteed student loan excepted from discharge.
Section 523(a) of the Code provides that a bankruptcy discharge will not extend:
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