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    Letters to Wendy

    Mar 02, 2021 2 minutes

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    MANY older readers might be finding it difficult to manage a big garden especially if they have no one to help them with all the heavy digging. Here is a humorous anecdote of how one old man overcame such a problem:

    An 80-year-old man lived on his own, in

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