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Donald E. Hoenig of Belfast is a former Maine state veterinarian.

Last Tuesday afternoon, I received an email with the following title: “Tick Test Complete at the University of Maine Cooperative Extension and Research Laboratory.” On Wednesday the previous week, I had removed an embedded tick from an area of my body that I would prefer not to name but suffice it to say that I needed my wife’s skill and vast experience to remove it. (This isn’t her first rodeo in helping me with tick removal.) The UMaine Lab submission form asks for the part of the body where the tick was attached and the only thing that fit was

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