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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''
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* g0 R7 w8 z# {1 S8 K"Mrs. Sanders, please.''
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"Speaking."' `9 C6 l) q0 ]3 D4 B% S+ @ ~% k* K
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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."
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) k! a% E) y3 T6 k3 K: \, Y8 {/ @''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."6 |, \& Q' u* w0 T- w
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"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.
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/ }( E$ l( b7 ]9 b& F! j"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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4 I) g" I! {4 @3 K. K A' {1 a''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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