I walked into the patient's room and introduced myself, then asked how I could help him.

“Do you want the long version or the short version?”

“Take all the time you want. You're the only patient in the ER.”

“OK, Doc. I went to my 20th class reunion last week, and met my old girlfriend. We're both divorced and neither of us are involved with anyone, and since we were still attracted to one another I kept asking her to come back to my place. She wasn't saying ‘no' but she kept telling me that I would not like her body because it's not the same as it used to be. I figured she was talking about a few stretch marks or something like that, and I reassured her that everyone has a few imperfections by the time they are 38 and I wasn't expecting perfection. Hey, look at me, with this big beer belly and whatnot—I sure don't have the same body I had in high school. Anyway, she finally agreed to have sex with me.”

“And?”

“Well, she still had a great body and I didn't know what she was talking about until this morning when I noticed some sores on my penis. Here, I'll show them to you. I think it's herpes.”

“Yes, that looks like herpes. She didn't tell you that she had herpes?”

“No, but right before I entered her she told me that I wasn't going to like it. Now I know what she was talking about. I thought about why she did this, and the only thing I can think of is that I dumped her in high school, but I didn't think she'd still be mad about it.”

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