“There’s this old radio joke,” says Ira. “The doctor goes ‘well, I’ve got your test results,’ and she goes ‘gosh, Doc, what is it?’ and he says ‘hypochondria!’ And there’s a beat, and she sounds hopeful and says ‘… is it contagious?'”<\/p>\n
Eunice laughs. He’s got that perfect Richard Crenna delivery, quick and impatient, just waiting for the audience to quiet down enough to shove in the next joke.<\/p>\n
“You still telegraph,” she says.<\/p>\n
“You still like it,” he says.<\/p>\n
“Cancer?”<\/p>\n
He grins; this time his eyes are darker. “Nah,” he says, “something else, I wasn’t really listening when they told me.”<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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