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[Laurence Horn]

Better than “the couple’s wife”…  Well, less non-conventional, anyway.

LH

> On Dec 19, 2016, at 5:35 PM, 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.
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> -Wilson
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> 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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