[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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