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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''
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/ o: t6 i' V9 I8 q' B8 U+ \"Mrs. Sanders, please.''3 V" j( s4 w( f- n9 o4 L
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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."3 ]+ u4 T- X) g7 |- f+ T$ f7 g q* k
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''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.0 J! q* z, i) i9 V7 F) X
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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."( A. G. @, k8 I! c' {) A1 I2 Q7 a
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"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.$ H; z3 G8 ? O+ r0 ? j
8 V) L# U, L: q9 s2 V" T7 U# D( r"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."7 Y/ M; f5 V$ d8 S3 a
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''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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