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Or Tweets, let’s be honest

David Conte

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My mother is very generous. Recently, she gave me some money for my medical expenses. However, she told me I could use the money for whatever I wanted. That said, what should I use it for?

A. To buy pizza every Friday night at an expensive pizza restaurant in town

B. To buy as much weed as I can with it

C. To sign up for OnlyFans and spend it there

D. To buy as many socks, underwear, and pajamas as I can find

I posted this on Facebook the other day:

“I have a serious question and I’m looking for the best response, if anyone wants to play along.

So I have a nice woman with somewhat of a medical background, albeit not an MD, helping me out. She’s not charging me any money, just helping out of the kindness of her heart. She seems very knowledgeable, but at the same time, is focused on an area of alternative medicine that uses certain testing that has not been clinically validated, costs a few hundred dollars, and is unlikely to be very useful.

She has strongly encouraged me to get this test done. I said I wasn’t sure and there was some back and forth — but I didn’t criticize the…

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