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A BATTLE FOR TRANSEO PECTINEUM

My name is Jordon and I am 43 years old. I am spending the rest of my life

in a place where the sick will visit and get their treatments to be on the

mend. Some of them will eventually recuperate and leave this place in the
pink of health whilst alas, some, like me, spend their entire lives here.

Sooner or later, I will become nothing more than a soulless entity lying

dead on the hospital bed. The pain of always seeing my body that only

reaches until the knees and that it is fully covered with swells of varying
sizes is like inching the very tip of a knife straight into my heart. Having no

choice rather than suffering from the relentless agonizing days, I pray so

badly for my last breath to come soon enough. How healthy I was once in

the past. I start reminiscing about my rapturously-past life.

Back in 1939, my friend and I were one of the world’s best-known

scientists. We were even once awarded with the Nobel Prize in
Physiology and Medicine for our astonishing discovery of antibacterial

effects of prontosil, shooting ourselves to stardom. Our careers as

scientists went coherently until one day when I received a letter from the
American embassy. The letter revealed that the President of United

States of America was desperately wanting to meet us. With thousands of

questions invading our minds, we flew to America. Upon reaching there,

we were brought to the White House. Plodding ourselves to the main hall,
we were greeted by the President.

“Greetings to you, young men, I am glad to see you. The intention of me

inviting you for this meeting is to ask you for a favour. The intelligence
reports revealed us that we will be setting forth for a second world war

with the Axis countries. However, recently my country’s army defense

had been utterly demolished. The soldiers became unreceptive and chaos
broke out in capital. In this condition, my country has no odds of winning

the war. So, I badly need you to invent a medicine that can make my

soldiers to be more aggressive and ultimately intelligent that the others.
There shouldn’t even be a single probability for the Axis country to grasp

victory over us and of course, the both of you will be hugely rewarded”.

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