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Friday afternoon I decided that my lingering cough was not a side effect of watching too much curling and went to see the doctor.

"You have pneumonia," she said after putting her stethoscope against my chest and listening to my cough. "Community-acquired pneumonia."

"Community-acquired?!?" I almost said. "I'm a freelance writer! I'm practically a recluse!"

But then she would have said: "You're no Salinger."