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Surplus To Requirement

Surplus to requirement My wife was her aunt a lovely woman of forty-four, then she divorced her husband a man with a title, a baron, because she felt bored by him – he was tedious all style and a small brain- she took a course and got a medical job that brought her far and wide, in the world and she also got a new man and we were happy for her, she was approaching middle age entitled to some happiness She stopped ringing us and when my wife rang her she was always busy, she disappeared from view and the silence became a chasm on unsaid words But we know she is doing well has friends her age. I said to my wife last time we saw her she looked so remote we had become too old for her

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Book: Shattered Sighs