When Greene's wife read the story to their young son, the boy cried at the thought of the permanent separation.

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The ex-wife of Chris Huhne took the story about accepting her husband's speeding points to the newspapers because she wanted revenge, she has admitted at her retrial.

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" In "Lavinia, " Ursula LeGuin invented the back story of Aeneas's wife in Virgil's "Aeneid.

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In the course of this reincarnation story, Beard manages to have his wife's research-student lover slip on a polar-bear rug, hit his head and die.

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The story is told through the eyes of the illusionist's wife, who, hypnotized by the exotic surroundings of North Africa, suffers an 1856 version of politically correct guilt.

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Nearly twenty years would pass before I retold this story for the first time to my wife while playing 'Cathy's Clown' from a recently-purchased Everly Brothers greatest hits album.

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The Washington Post quoted a "senior administration official" in a story Sunday as saying that two top White House officials disclosed the identity of Wilson's wife in calls to at least six Washington journalists.

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