>Seems more likely to me that this is another of those "Europeans can't afford clothes" stories- old ladies are wandering around in England with untreated arms swollen up like balloons, gnashing their English teeth at passers-by, dressed in rags sent by US charities and refused treatment by a phalanx of Ayn-Randian NHS bureaucrats who rule over physicians laboring in Dickensian conditions. ;-)
and don't forget awful teeth. ;)
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