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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''5 x4 r- D. E1 i9 R5 P3 T( O" \5 u
" a7 M! i! q9 v% ]/ Q"Mrs. Sanders, please.''
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. X4 m6 _' X4 @6 Y''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." l/ ]& T' h2 |9 n
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''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.; z, P' t9 J# O# q6 d7 T' B
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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."
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6 j. l( d2 h; V"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders., J9 `" |: i4 @8 O( f& `# p: ~
1 u4 [- o/ O4 P1 Z+ A6 f"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."
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/ A" t1 x: t6 y1 Z/ c5 V( m''Well, what am I supposed to do now?"
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& o$ b" \# ]; ?0 {''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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