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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''
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. p2 {6 t; ]: Q+ v, U8 \"Mrs. Sanders, please.''
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$ E0 A5 Q+ [+ o w9 a"Speaking."4 j- X2 @0 I9 F/ Y4 [, B7 W
: C1 F) j" w4 O- ]/ G) B% }''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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. s9 l" d$ P" K m''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 T( g" ~# r$ O/ C
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"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.
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+ k ^, J7 r$ g7 Y+ w- b"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."
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( Q$ j$ Q2 Q, f''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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