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The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''
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"Mrs. Sanders, please.''/ E6 e) ?4 L# L: M- h& ]3 R6 D- m) t
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"Speaking."1 M, Y' C$ V* O$ s; ^: H/ M
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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.
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# X4 C. t4 ]" j3 \"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."
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5 \0 \$ D$ E: q"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.0 D! m9 \1 ~8 Q
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"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."
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''Well, what am I supposed to do now?"
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1 T V6 I: t3 u! v4 J1 Q''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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