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Question
Why (D.4) do you think Pen Pal showed Skander’s photographic plate to a doctor at the hospital ?
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Solution
Perhaps Pen Pal got suspicious of the uncommon photographic plate. So he showed it to a doctor at the hospital to know what it actually was.
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