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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''
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"Mrs. Sanders, please.'': ?- ^0 \$ N+ {9 y
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"Speaking."
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- ^8 ~/ S$ g# q5 e; q''Mrs. Sanders, this is Doctor Jones at Saint Agnes Laboratory. When your doctor sent your husband's biopsy to the lab yesterday, a biopsy from another Mr. Sanders arrived as well, and we are now uncertain which one is your husband's. Frankly the results are either bad or terrible."* K8 t+ Y6 c; f* i2 P& K
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''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.0 T& [/ w, v" ~0 m2 y' q) B
6 |, j: G9 B" J% P; a"Well, one of the specimens tested positive for Alzheimer's and the other one tested positive for AIDS. We can't tell which is your husband's.", ~( y& b: m: ?: \
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"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.
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' |" h7 O9 ^4 f. |4 X2 W"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."
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''Well, what am I supposed to do now?"
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''The people at Medicare recommend that you drop your husband off somewhere in the middle of town. If he finds his way home, don't sleep with him |
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