The two women - one fat one thin
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Thin woman’s son was a sub lieutenant in the navy while the fat woman’s son was an ordinary seaman
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No matter how hard you tried you could never like the thin woman
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She was an incomer from another village and had only been in this one for 30 years or so
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They were like two birds, one a fat domestic bird perhaps, the other one more aquiline more gaunt, or, to be precise more like a buzzard
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It came over them as a strange plague, taking their sons away and killing them, meaninglessly, randomly
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People began to think as the telegram as a strange middle pointed at them from abroad
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His walkthrough the village was a somnambulistic wandering
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