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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Northeast Kansas | Colorado Native
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Whether or not you choose to believe it, the medical exemption does in fact work. I have not been present when you go through, so I can't answer why you always get the grope. But I can guarantee you that it is not a lie, and I have never been groped when declaring a medical.