Riddle
A boy was rushed to the hospital emergency room. The ER doctor saw the boy and said, “I cannot operate on this boy. He is my son.” But the doctor was not the boy’s father. How could that be?
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Answer
The doctor was his mom.
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The answer makes sense once you stop reading the setup in the most literal everyday way.
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