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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''$ k0 H0 J/ q' u, h! ^
) [& i6 j0 d$ }"Mrs. Sanders, please.''
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''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.": G9 T/ z9 ^! _2 m
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''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.
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"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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/ w/ \/ }/ }4 a8 @" q"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.
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' ?; C+ H1 k, Y8 ~, y"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."$ k) V6 w) E; w' m/ G
; i; t5 I+ j2 W0 ^9 x+ \% U''Well, what am I supposed to do now?"" j: j9 _1 F5 p5 O* _. {6 }
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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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