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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''
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3 W- A. n+ `* S& |3 s+ D3 ["Mrs. Sanders, please.''
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9 q- l3 U5 p8 V) z! N; Q+ m"Speaking."
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* T, u4 n2 G' D$ A- l$ p! b# H) F( j''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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"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."1 x2 A5 J' D- o0 c" H$ O
4 M/ u5 ~# W( i( d% q"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.
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1 F7 X0 Y4 S& u9 X5 I0 A"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."4 f) O1 d/ |5 }+ z
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''Well, what am I supposed to do now?"
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- P+ o* [; U' F0 G4 c# r& T5 X''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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