Pick Me Up!

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Comfortably living in their suburban Perkasie home in Pennsylvania, US, Elizabeth ‘Beth’ Capaldi and her husband Stephen Capaldi, were a perfect couple.

After their adult daughter Emma had flown the nest, despite being in close contact, with Emma describing her mum as her ‘best friend’, Beth, 55, was quite happy left to her own devices.

Whether that was decorating and rearranging the family home, experimenting with her favourite neutral colours, reading, turning her hand to art or sitting down of an evening to watch movies on the TV, it was clear that Beth was content being a self-confessed ‘homebody’.

The pair were a perfect couple

Having worked many jobs over the years, her favourite was working at a local video store – where she would stay up late to

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