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VIRGINIA IRONSIDE

I want to be alone

Q Just after my wife died, I met a widow in the village I live in and, to start with, we got on very well. Sex was great and we had interests in common. But soon she was spending rather too much time round at my house and now she's talking about selling her house and moving in properly. Everyone in the village assumes we're a couple and I'm always invited with her to things that I'd quite like to go to on my own. I

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