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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''
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2 c8 T6 E% t/ {3 g. y1 z% Q"Mrs. Sanders, please.''
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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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/ g7 `( z: R, t: H" a* ?''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.": ?: j; ]- q, ?6 I
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"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.- B! K- M2 v& ]2 i5 ^9 B! x
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"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."2 W- D* T# d, l% C" ^8 x" k
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''Well, what am I supposed to do now?"
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+ r7 q; |% v& r''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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