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	Perhaps there were other parts missing 
	too. One hundred and fifty doesn't sound 
	like enough. And it's an even number, 
	nothing really comes out to even numbers, 
	especially when you add on all the taxes. 
	They must have left something out. Not just 
	the sex organs, but something important. 
	Perhaps there are glands that they haven't 
	discovered, muscles and veins they haven't 
	itemized and charted, vital organs with no 
	names. Perhaps some mistake was made by the 
	company that produced the transparencies, 
	Transvision Milprint Inc. of Milwaukee, Wis-
	consin; perhaps they left out an entire page 
	to cut costs. Or a clerical error. A box of 
	undelivered transparencies labelled "Plate L" 
	might still be sitting in some back store
	room in Milwaukee. Or maybe there are some 
	things you just can't show on a transparency. 
	Even a colour one.

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