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Dear ______,

So pleased to learn that the removal of your hump did not leave you with residual Menamola! (Isn't that the name of a town in Mexico?)

I did promise to contact you for the P.R.P. organization and did so. This was to establish your recommended lifestyle – to help you survive without the hump.

I visited the P.R.P. clinic. They first ascertained that I was not N.H.S. but a C.P. – a Cash Payer. Then they immediately took on your case.

As you know, they can do marvels nowadays, but I was not prepared for the range of options. We fed your details into the D.T.A. (Diagnostic-Treatment Analyser). Of the list of prescriptions there were two very different proposals which seemed likely to be suitable for you:

1. R.R.P. This could be physically stressful in the short term (two weeks) and you might find it psychologically demanding on a permanent basis. We ruled out Rapid Rejuvenation Process in your case. It would be difficult for you to live and look like a sixteen-year-old under your present circumstances.

2. M.S.G. This is more difficult to achieve than R.R.P. which is just a question of taking the tablets for seven days. Mature Serenity and Gladness involves making an attitudinal and behavioural change on a fundamental level.

You must learn to wake up with a glad cry of joy. Thereafter, throughout the day. you need to observe and comment on the positive aspects of everything you see. Search out the joyous aspects of life! Reinforce and exhibit your serenity with a constant smile of gladness, interspersed with warm chuckles. Persevere with this behaviour until you are removed.

Me? I went for R.R.P. I'd like to tell you about that but I must go now, or – cripes! – I'll be late for school!!