A woman in her 90's is distraught after the death of her
warm, caring, faithful husband of seventy years. She
can't live without him and decides that the best way
to do herself in is to stab herself in her pitifully
broken heart. Still, she doesn't want to linger so she
calls a doctor to find out exactly where the heart is.
He tells her to put her first two fingers together,
hold them horizontally and place the tip of the first
finger just below her left nipple. The heart, he says,
is immediately below the first knuckle on her second
finger.
Later that day, the doctor is called to the emergency
room to put fourteen stitches in the elderly woman's
left thigh.
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