Science may have good news for the victims of lycanthropy in these United States. For five years now, ever since werewolves were "outed," fading actor Monty Allen had hosted an annual telethon to raise money for research to find a cure, and suddenly he claimed there was light at the end of the tunnel? and it wasn't the light of the full moon.

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