During a recent get-to-know-you game, area woman Irene McGuire’s fun fact was just a strange disease she had during her childhood. “When I was in first grade, I was hospitalized for seventeen days after contracting a rare form of tuberculosis,” McGuire excitedly told a room of seven disgusted co-workers. “I also had whooping cough in fourth grade, salmonella in eighth, and mono senior year! I guess you could say I’m sick all of the time.” In the following game of two truths and a lie, McGuire revealed that she had broken both of her legs when she was sixteen.

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