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FINDING A GOOD HOME

HE’D BOUGHT the bike the year before they got married. One thing they agreed on was that he’d keep his old BSA, because she had no problem with that. She knew how important that motorbike was to him. As well as riding the thing, he loved spending hours with it in the shed, making sure it ran sweet.

That was long ago, and now he was gone. Five long years ago. She’d had offers to buy it around the time

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