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“Hearing my wife’s voice on the phone was the ideal cure for my present melancholia. I let her chat away about all the contacts she was making from her latest shoot, and how much fun she was having designing some of the layouts. Apparently, as the article they were shooting for was aimed at the younger generation, her father had stepped back and allowed Jenifer to take charge and he was acting more like her assistant, which also tickled her.
“She sounded so bubbly and full of life that I did not have the heart to bring her down by voicing my concerns regarding my visitor. Instead I told her about how well I was being looked after by the Jarrows, and that I had decided that it might be appropriate to find my late cousin’s grave so that I could pay my respects. Jenifer agreed that it
