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               *** A Story by Dr. Graper ***
 
         3/3/79   9:37 pm     tripp / udperuse / unidel
ipr / unidel  3/3/79  12:23 am  graper / udnondev / unidel
 
Dear Friends:
 
        Ever think a lot about your spinal cord?  Christ,
I do it all the time anymore and its beginning to make me
into a real Dosteyevsky kind of fellow.  There always seems
to be something ready to fall apart in your spine, you know,
what with all those chemical balances that must be main-
tained and bone disks that have to remain stationary and
gelatinous cartilage sections that hold it all together and,
jeez, its gotten me where I have spine posters in my room
and write spinal limericks on the walls of men's toilets
and have this strange feeling that there's always someone
following me, waiting to give me a spinal tap when I'm not
expecting it.  
        Sure, blame it all on drug usage.  But I_ think I
desperately need some sort of medical attention.  Sure, you
 
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               *** A Story by Dr. Graper ***
 
         3/3/79   9:38 pm     tripp / udperuse / unidel
say, go to the university health  center, they'll work on
you. . .well, it doesn't work that way, buddy!!  Everything
mental- like  they dismiss as "student depression!"  I have
a unique problem here, dammit, and if anybody, I mean
ANYBODY comes up to me with one of those golf-tee shaped
spinal taps, ooh, that will be IT, man!!  No more Mr. 
Nice Guy!!   My Steamboat awaits.
 
                Your Friend,
                Dr. Graper
 
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         3/5/79   8:49 pm     lynch / udplato / unidel
ipr / unidel  3/3/79  12:34 am  anonymous / unidel
 
As for that, I thought it was totally out of context.
 
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               *** A Story by Dr. Graper ***
 
         3/5/79   8:50 pm     lynch / udplato / unidel
ipr / unidel  3/3/79  12:39 am  anonymous / unidel
 
 
        You've got to excuse the fellow.  He really is__
mentally ill.  I saw him in the mens room, constantly 
looking at his spine in the mirror.  It may sound funny but
its not.