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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''2 `" N' ^- `, l/ H, ?
2 N- f1 G2 k4 F! s"Mrs. Sanders, please.''
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"Speaking."( J2 n' R8 m% Q: k! s. S8 O7 E
3 W3 E& R, _) W D6 [' 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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* O }1 U3 k) t''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.
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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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$ O( r/ t. M: F! I* R# D: i7 |"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.
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" h% v. \ ^0 _. ?* f1 B* h. X"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."1 F7 y) q) K5 F( ]
" F1 j2 m# I U' i''Well, what am I supposed to do now?"" H6 J- I6 {+ H7 J. |6 y
- B$ f8 B' O% f4 V. |8 x''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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