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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''
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8 m4 k5 a. E! ]+ h0 b% g"Mrs. Sanders, please.''
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"Speaking."4 d1 a6 c( B+ ]+ i* a! @ Y
& U+ g8 [+ x3 a! y5 u* \7 L''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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6 E5 ^1 n9 ^9 h+ ^''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.
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3 h+ t- _) M; q8 N6 g* z" y"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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"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.! @/ j# J- R' z
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"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."7 f/ ~3 x$ h* Y0 V) Q* [2 F
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''Well, what am I supposed to do now?"
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- X$ C b& I3 ]+ W8 m, 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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