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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''
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"Mrs. Sanders, please.''
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"Speaking."
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" Y& J G1 K6 n4 }/ D, P6 n''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.$ R; y0 C/ g* C' G) X
3 n- h4 q- w" }0 B; y* _# G"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."# O" r+ I1 y2 f% W5 H( r! q, v
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"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.
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$ d, `# n7 t* ~+ x, `( V1 ^"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."; I2 m4 T( ^% ^
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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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