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as each of us gets older, our bodies become less tolerant to some kinds of abuses
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Don't even get me started. My doctor sent me for a few tests last week and I got a phone call from her early the next morning - that's never a good sign... and it wasn't. When I was younger, I would never even hear about the results. FFS, she wants me to cut the cream out of my coffee! Muh cream!! I actually tried to do it today when I ordered a coffee but then I noticed they wrote "C" on the lid. I asked them about it and apparently even though I swear I asked for milk (it was literally the only thing I was thinking and crying about as I entered the coffee shop), it came out sounding like "cream". Weird. The lady offered to make another coffee with milk but I told her it was fate and I wasn't about to mess with that. I'll be trying again tomorrow anyway. I might have to write "milk" on my hand... or tie a string around my nipple or something.