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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''
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3 F! Q: P9 x6 `0 H"Mrs. Sanders, please.''
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. L* t. h* x5 n3 [+ B"Speaking."
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: f/ U' x3 Q$ v" y/ {# a''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." _. U" O' H' [+ f4 n
6 N0 P* [7 h2 U7 C''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.
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" D) z4 |' W3 H5 c"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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: J, i4 ~! p$ M3 }; F, Q# L9 i8 G9 s"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.
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" @0 W& Z6 l- @; }5 R1 @3 K6 u"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."
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- t- ~+ d! b# E8 u# ]/ F! I''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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