Goines On: Christine’s gift

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Goines had had a small but slowly growing bump on his face for about a year (he thought). It had little concerned him until recently, when he sliced a bit of it off shaving, and so decided to make an appointment with his doctor – or rather with her assistant, John, since she was unavailable. Goines had a lot of confidence in John anyway (as did Mrs. Goines also, who had accompanied him on a consultation with John).