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The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''5 Y# f8 V* b* Z+ L; l
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"Mrs. Sanders, please.''
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+ h& f9 } x5 z# E7 _"Speaking."
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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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''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously. j3 I$ a1 N6 q9 w9 C, ?$ p' {
4 z k8 {9 j+ u l+ t& l"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.") m3 H! N y6 P |4 W% p' g* o
+ G9 c4 D |+ X"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.
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/ v2 H* I+ ]! f& a"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."# R4 R: n& C% b/ M `, P/ F
; N1 x2 ?: ]! n* o; w8 ]: a''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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