[Ads-l] A narrator speaks:

Robin Hamilton robin.hamilton3 at VIRGINMEDIA.COM
Mon Dec 19 22:54:11 UTC 2016


The wife drove off in the car?  While the husband of the couple watched them
both go through the rear-view mirror?

Alice wonders ...

R.

> 
>     On 19 December 2016 at 22:35 Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> 
>     "With their car gone and _the wife of the couple_ missing, the police
> began
>     their search."
> 
> 
>     Seems like a kinda off-beat way of putting it, but, nevertheless, all
>     right, IMO.
> 
>     --
>     -Wilson
>     -----
>     All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
>     come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
>     -Mark Twain
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