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"I now own three horses. "

"What?" you say. "You already owned three horses."

"Well, not exactly. I owned two of them jointly with my mate. I just bought his share out and sent in the transfer papers."

"Oh... Wait, you're not splitting up or anything are you?"

"No, not at all. He was having trouble paying the hospital bills after his bee sting incident last June, and refused to let me help. So I told him I wanted to buy the horses out from him and he agreed to that. Half of what we paid for them just happened to cover most of his outstanding bills."

"That's dumb. Why wouldn't he just let you help him out?"

"Polish stubbornness, I guess. And the stupidity of a society that won't recognize our relationship so that I could get him onto my health insurance plan."

[This is all true, BTW.]