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Lights Out With Sylvia Shults by Sylvia Shults

Aug 3, 2026Society & Culture

Sixty-eight year old Jean-Marie Sevrain was forced to obtain a letter from his doctor certifying that he was still alive after the French health service refused to pay his medical expenses on the grounds that he was dead...

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