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GENEALOGY POX

Warning: NO KNOWN CURE! (very contagious to mature adults)

SYMPTOMS:

• Continual complaint for names, dates, and places.
• Patient has blank expression, sometimes deaf to spouse and children.
• Has no taste for work of any kind, except feverishly looking through records at libraries and courthouses.
• Has strong compulsions to write letters.
• Swears at mailman when he leaves no mail.
• Has compulsions to frequently visit strange places, such as cemeteries, ruins, and remote, desolate country areas.
• Makes secret night calls.
• Hides phone bills from spouse.
• Mumbles to self.
• Has strange, far-away look in eyes.

TREATMENT:

• Medication is useless.
• Disease is not fatal, but gets progressively worse.
• Patient should attend genealogy workshops, subscribe to genealogical magazines, and be given a quiet corner of the house where he or she can be left alone.

REMARKS:

• The unusual nature of this disease is the sicker one gets, the more he/she enjoys it!

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