It’s evening in America in the year 2016. After a long and arduous day, you’ve finally gotten a chance to sit down and enjoy a casual dinner served in the living room, so you can also catch your favorite TV program, only to have it rudely interrupted – before you can manage to hit the mute button on your remote – by someone giving you a distinctly distasteful description of some very private gastrointestinal problems.
Or it might be a disgusting depiction of what it’s like to suffer from an excruciatingly painful and disfiguring case…
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