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Try...what?

Saturdays were my day to help out in the hospital as an orderly. It wasn’t really a fun job, although I wasn’t here for fun. But, I had this duty for the next six months, so I intended to make the best of it, and perhaps learn something in the process.

Today promised to be a bit different from usual. Today, I was assigned to the experimental ward, which was normally off-limits to normal hospital staff members.

“Hey, Dawn, give me a hand with this patient.” shouted Dr. Lambert, who was trying to support a patient who was in the process of collapsing onto the floor..

I quickly grabbed the patient’s other arm and headed toward the bed. “What seems to be wrong with him, err, her, err, what is this?” I asked.

“We call this gender a har.” Dr. Lambert answered.

“A what?” I gasped. “What’s a har?”

“Well, this species is tri-sexual..” Dr. Lambert began.

“Try sexual?” I giggled. “Does that mean that try everything sexual?”

“No.” he responded with a frown. “It means there are three genders.”

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