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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''
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8 M; N! j/ A/ F9 v"Mrs. Sanders, please.''
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8 k: ^8 R: ~/ {/ n"Speaking."
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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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''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.
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7 I# @1 [* [/ |( K5 [, l: R0 v1 E"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.8 B/ d) U1 b5 {! p ~, j
0 Y% X* }! X8 u9 M2 f0 y& x9 X0 H"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."2 J1 G9 r1 l1 n- j1 ]1 V
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''Well, what am I supposed to do now?"
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0 \% p# m2 D1 }''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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