DEAR DEIDRE

Medical students in their final year at Harvard University had been dreading the practical autopsy exam, but, on the day, they all crowded into the examination room to find their professor standing next to what was obviously a cadaver under a sheet. After everyone had settled down, the professor gleefully announced, "We're extremely lucky today. We have been able to secure a young fresh male cadaver from New York, who tragically took his own life yesterday." As the professor removed the sheet, a young female student suddenly fainted. It turned out that the body was that of the boyfriend she had dumped only a few days previously.

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