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"16"

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The odds are good, Dr. Song
tells me in his office.

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Still, he blinks too much as
he answers my wife's questions

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about this perplexing case.

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Melanoma is exceedingly
rare among individuals

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of my dusky extraction
and virtually non-existent

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among younger members
of this population.

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You're a medical miracle, joked
one nurse before I went under.

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But not the good kind.

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At least my tests show no spread
to the neighboring lymph nodes,

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lowering the mortality
rate within three years

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to roughly one in 10.

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Not bad odds.

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I resolve not to make too much
of this matter in the days

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to come.

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But the complimentary brochure
that I take from the rack

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as I exit the
reception area says

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I mustn't make too
little of it either.

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In this respect, my condition
is not unlike the war.

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I don't want to
make too much of it

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in my ambient
transactional order,

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but I don't want to make
too little of it either.

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