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'She asks me who I am - and I'm her husband'
Newspaper article from: The Independent (London, England) ...unbreakable bond, says David Graham Pucker...as the former steeplejack deploys the tube...foreign to the 73-year-old...underpinned such a strong bond is still...children, Fiona, David, and Ian, help...what keeps them going. ...

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