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Survival #6

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To love and for it not to be returned as it's given is the stuff of romantic novels. That doesn't make it any easier to bear. Anger, resentment and resignation in equal measure take their toll. Like the years in a savage oriental jail, it changes people, and not always for the better. Disapproval from her wealthy family, who patronised and criticised, drove the wedge deeper. The gulf between them widened, increasingly isolating this needy man.

His career never amounted to much, brilliant though he was. He grew argumentative and antisocial as the bottle gave him the love he needed...

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