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Dear Mary

Dear Mary

14 October 2023

9:00 AM

14 October 2023

9:00 AM

Q. Like a lot of my friends, my husband is selectively hard of hearing. He loves his garden and I spend ages calling him when it is lunchtime/someone has turned up etc. There is no mobile signal in the garden so I can’t ring him and by the time I have found him I am usually cross and hoarse from shouting.

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