(After informing Mrs. Averill she may have lung cancer) Why are smokers always surprised when they're ill? Why do they think they're going to be the lucky ones who live to be a hundred? Did you think you'd make it to seventy?
AMrs. Averill
I'm seventy-five.
Eighty?
AMrs. Averill
My mother smoked a pipe until she was ninety-three.
And then she died.
AMrs. Averill
No. She lost her pipe.
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