Imagine That Another Friend Comes to You Saying That She

question 34

Essay

Imagine that another friend comes to you saying that she was just diagnosed with genital herpes. She is emotionally shattered-in addition to her shock at the diagnosis, she feels that her partner of the past two years, whom she had been seeing exclusively, must have cheated on her. In this case, you know both your friend and her partner very well, and you do not think either person had sexual contact with anyone else during the relationship. What are two possibilities other than infidelity that explain the diagnosis?

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