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Ralph and Edna
>Ralph and Edna were both patients in a mental hospital.
>One day while they were walking past the hospital swimming pool
Ralph
>suddenly jumped into the deep end.
>
>He sank to the bottom of the pool and stayed there.
>
>Edna promptly jumped in to save him. She swam to the bottom and
>pulled him out. When the Head Nurse Director became aware of Edna's
>heroic act she immediately ordered her to be discharged from the
>hospital, as she now considered her to be mentally stable.
>
>When she went to tell Edna the news she said, 'Edna, I have good news
>and bad news. The good news is you're being discharged, since you
>were able to rationally respond to a crisis by jumping in and saving
>the life of the person you love... I have concluded that your act
>displays soundness of mind.
>
>The bad news is, Ralph hung himself in the bathroom with his bathrobe
>belt right after you saved him. I am so sorry, but he's dead.'
>
>Edna replied, 'He didn't hang himself, I put him there to dry.. How
>soon can I go home?'
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