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Corrected some incorrect math.

This is closely related to a nice open problem of David Aldous, from the list of open problems on his web site, some version of which in fact has quite a long history in the combinatorial optimization community. At the above link Aldous has references to existing knowledge about the problem. The state of the art is that the sum of all edge lengths is $O(n^{1/2})$ in expectation.