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try to shield sexual transgressions of children from parents and parents who have a right to know. Withdrawn and confused by her condition the punished child passed her last fifteen days in house arrest until her death. Why didn't penicillin work? After all, that was the correct treatment for syphilis, according to the provider as was confirmed by the father from a treatment manual he took out from a library. Dr. Chu took over as the butterfly symbolically faded to black. Slides of brain with scattered punctate infarct tissue showed the expected characteristics of an intense vasculitis. Kidney tissue specimens were awash in diffuse proliferative degeneration. The pericarditis fluid measurement was astounding. It was a race between proliferating damage in her brain and generalized kidney destruction to kill her. But the double crush of the heart, one by pericardial fluid and the even worse one by accusative parents who reviled a actually virginal child to death for imaginary promiscuity. Dr. Chu ended the presentation, "Death from Systemic Lupis Erythematosis associated with a false positive test for syphilis." "AND ERISA!", came the startling capper from the back ring, as Shannon spun out. "And ERISA," Blake agreed under his breath, adding "Not for long if I can help it." He stiffened, Case 104798. Archie? Where's Archie?" Doctor Archibald Long stood up and rattled off, in typical minimalist synopsis form, the events following Mr. 104798's headlong fall into a construction site foundation from a twenty foot high scaffold. Situated in a special boxed in cubicle built into the wall like gallery, a tall medical technician who organized M&M details, making sure that all records and materials were at hand and in orderly state, Mr. Jonathan Pall, placed x- rays onto a flat bed projector. The typical white images of x-rays against black, seemed,

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