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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''
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"Mrs. Sanders, please.'') r/ J( {) M" i8 y8 p
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! Q2 R- L* }' @0 r5 f''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.") }# \ x0 ]. ^+ }' I
+ V& ?1 }( D3 K- }/ ~''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.
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7 @$ T1 f# K& }0 j2 J, S8 V"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."
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- h" j/ s7 q, y- z"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.
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8 A" S, ~" [8 M2 e6 ~ P6 i. G; ~0 r"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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0 L/ Z& _' Y$ U& |! R+ F1 b7 k, q''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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