One of the students in class was holding her throat. She had a look on her face as if she hurt. I asked her if her throat was sore. She nodded, squinting her eyes to milk the moment as much as she could.<\/p>\n
“It’s the little round things,” she said.<\/p>\n
“Lymph nodes?” I asked.<\/p>\n
“That’s it,” she said.<\/p>\n
A student standing nearby said, “I had mine removed.”<\/p>\n
I gasped. “You had your lymph nodes removed!? I don’t think so. You must mean your tonsils.”<\/p>\n
I pointed to the scar on my neck. “If you had your lymph nodes removed, your neck would look like this.”<\/p>\n
“Wrinkles?”<\/p>\n
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