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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''
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"Mrs. Sanders, please.''& D+ ~, `# o q A
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"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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% L5 F0 `; j0 Z0 A$ ^''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.
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4 X3 a$ _5 Y# e k5 R" }" ]1 ^3 z"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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"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.8 b* c; r6 |. H# j
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"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."9 m1 x( t- P: |! F$ H# o3 i5 K
" R' M; G/ r, |3 G& P''Well, what am I supposed to do now?"8 H3 h. |! R- N1 p) S3 m; A" r
/ X7 y+ U- ]3 P( V3 c''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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