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    A Dutiful Wife
    A Dutiful Wife
    A Dutiful Wife
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    A Dutiful Wife

    By Barry Rachin

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    In her late sixties, Granny Baxter just stumbled across the love of her life. Problem is, Bernie Mangerelli, who sold lingerie and woman's underwear for the better part of forty years, is a hapless ne’er-do-well and gold digger. Or is he?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBarry Rachin
    Release dateAug 26, 2018
    ISBN9780463945599
    A Dutiful Wife
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    Barry Rachin

    About the AuthorBorn in Boston, Massachusetts, Barry Rachin spent several years stationed in Yokuska, Japan as a Navy medic caring for casualties during the Vietnam War. He has studied at the University of Jerusalem, lived on a kibbutz for a year and holds a degree in clinical counseling from Simmons College. A self-taught woodworker, he presently lives in Attleboro, Massachusetts with his wife and two daughters.

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      A Dutiful Wife - Barry Rachin

      A Dutiful Wife

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      Barry Rachin

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      Copyright 2018

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      This short story represents a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental.

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      A Dutiful Wife

      Following her husband’s death from a coronary embolism, Granny Baxter tumbled down a bottomless well of heartache and hurt. The family took her for counseling with a Dr. Wasserman. Three months later the woman was no better off than when she started therapy. Seventeen year-old Ralph accompanied his parents to the consultation in late august. From the outset Ralph disliked the sinewy, sallow faced psychiatrist, who had a penchant for twenty-five cent, clinical terms that stretched a block-and-a-half long.

      Mrs. Baxter suffers from involutional melancholia, Dr. Wasserman spoke in a rather dry, detached monotone. "Her depression

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