Update: Me, 1; tick 0

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I feel obliged to acknowledge the outpouring of support — two Facebook “thumb’s ups” — from those concerned about being tick bitten in what I’ll euphemistically call a “sensitive place.”



And by “sensitive place” I do not mean the part of my brain that triggers weeping during movies where the dog dies.



I went to the doctor. He examined my sensitive place, as did his young