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Melon Seeds and Boobs: Breast Hyperplasia in an Absurd Era

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Lao Li, fifty years old and supposedly at the age of knowing his destiny, had been feeling a strange swelling in his chest lately. At first, he didn't think much of it, assuming it was just his blood pressure rising from arguing with Widow Wang next door. But the swelling in his chest grew increasingly strange, from a slight distension to a dull ache, and then, eventually... eventually, damn it, he grew boobs!

This terrified Lao Li. He was a real man, burly and rough, with a bristly beard. Anyone who saw him on the street would call him "Brother Li." How could he have grown these things? He secretly went to the hospital, registered, got checked, and the doctor pushed up his glasses, looking at him like he was an alien: "You have... breast hyperplasia."