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If Only
‘She looks so lovely doesn’t she?’ I whispered to my wife.
‘Yes, she does’
‘It’s just a pity we can’t give her a Farley’s Rusk now, she loves them’.
‘Yes, she did’
The lid closed on the two foot white coffin.
That’s all I remember, doctor!
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