In love; falling

&;quot;So where's your old fella
then?&;quot;

class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none;
mso-layout-grid-align: none">&;quot;Oh, he left a long time
ago.&;quot;

class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none;
mso-layout-grid-align: none">&;quot;Absconded eh? Legged it with a
mistress; a bit on the
side?&;quot;

class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none;
mso-layout-grid-align: none">&;quot;Something like
that.&;quot;

class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none;
mso-layout-grid-align: none">&;quot;I didn't mean to touch a nerve. My
English ain't what it should be, as it
was.&;quot;

class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none;
mso-layout-grid-align: none">&;quot;As it was? You mean, as it
were?&;quot;

class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none;
mso-layout-grid-align: none">&;quot;Right. Yeah, as it
were.&;quot;

class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none;
mso-layout-grid-align: none">&;quot;There's one thing that's going to
annoy me if I don't ask you before we
expire.&;quot;

class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none;
mso-layout-grid-align: none">&;quot;Expire? Sorry I don't
underst...&;quot;

class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none;
mso-layout-grid-align: none">&;quot;Before we cop it? Kick the
bucket?&;quot;

class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none;
mso-layout-grid-align: none">&;quot;Ah yes,
gotcha.&;quot;

class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none;
mso-layout-grid-align: none">&;quot;Why do you, and hear I'm assuming by
your attire... I mean by your get up. I'm assuming that you are not of
British
dissent.&;quot;

class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none;
mso-layout-grid-align: none">&;quot;Descent?&;quot;

class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none;
mso-layout-grid-align: none">&;quot;How
appropriate.&;quot;

class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none;
mso-layout-grid-align: none">&;quot;Sorry?&;quot;

class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none;
mso-layout-grid-align: none">&;quot;Okay. I can see I'm confusing you. You
are black, yes?

class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none;
mso-layout-grid-align: none">&;quot;Yes
but...&;quot;

class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none;
mso-layout-grid-align: none">&;quot;...and you're from
Kenya,
right?&;quot;

style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none;
mso-layout-grid-align: none">&;quot; style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY:
Arial">Nairobi
but...&;quot;

style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none;
mso-layout-grid-align: none">&;quot;...Lived there all your
life?&;quot;

class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none;
mso-layout-grid-align: none">&;quot;Yeah, but
you...&;quot;

class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none;
mso-layout-grid-align: none">&;quot;...Right. Then why on earth do you
speak and understand English only in this dreadful mockney
slang?&;quot;

class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none;
mso-layout-grid-align: none">&;quot;Oh, I see! I learnt my English off
telly. Michael Caine movies, Only Fools and Horses, Porridge,
Eastenders, The Bill. It is the school of cockney banter, so I am
told.&;quot;

class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none;
mso-layout-grid-align: none">&;quot;Oh. Well. You speak very
well.&;quot;

class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none;
mso-layout-grid-align: none">&;quot;Ta.&;quot;

class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none;
mso-layout-grid-align: none">

class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none;
mso-layout-grid-align: none">&;quot;So this fella of
yours?&;quot;

class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none;
mso-layout-grid-align: none">&;quot;Do we have to talk about this
now?&;quot;

class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none;
mso-layout-grid-align: none">&;quot;This is the Captain speaking. Please
remain calm. We will shortly be attempting an emergency landing. Please
adopt your emergency brace
positions.&;quot;

class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none;
mso-layout-grid-align: none">&;quot;What is this emergency brace
position?&;quot;

class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none;
mso-layout-grid-align: none">&;quot;It means chin up, guv, we're in for a
rough ride.&;quot;

class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none;
mso-layout-grid-align: none">&;quot;'Kay.&;quot;

class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none;
mso-layout-grid-align: none">&;quot;You're a bit of alright for your
age.&;quot;

class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none;
mso-layout-grid-align: none">&;quot;Thanks, my dear. You're not so bad
yourself.&;quot;

class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none;
mso-layout-grid-align: none">

class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none;
mso-layout-grid-align: none">&;quot;My husband. My old fella, he got put
into a home, he was mentally unsta... he lost it. Lost his marbles. A
few years ago. He's been in a loony bin ever since. He doesn't know who
I am.&;quot;

class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none;
mso-layout-grid-align: none">&;quot;I'm sure he loved you before he lost
it.&;quot;

class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none;
mso-layout-grid-align: none">&;quot;I'm sure he still loves me
now.&;quot;

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mso-layout-grid-align: none">

class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none;
mso-layout-grid-align: none">&;quot;Brace for
landing.&;quot;

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mso-layout-grid-align: none">

class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none;
mso-layout-grid-align: none">&;quot;Goodbye, my name is
Anne.&;quot;

class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none;
mso-layout-grid-align: none">&;quot;I'm
Jasad.&;quot;

class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none;
mso-layout-grid-align: none">Anne smiled, revealing teeth whiter than a
plane, with two engines on fire, and inside two people falling in love
in aisle
sixteen.