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Mrs．Kelly returned me a glass of ice and a bottle of wine．She said, “Sit down．It’s not often I have a person to talk to．Of course, I have my cats．Anyway, you’ll spend the night?I have a nice little 1 that’s been waiting such a long time for a guest．In the morning you can walk to the 2 and catch a ride(搭车)into town．It’s about five miles away．”
I asked how she could live alone, without transportation(运输工具)or a telephone, she told me her good friend, the postman, 3 all her shopping needs．“ He is really so dear, but he is going to retire(退休)next year． 4 that I don’t know what to do．But something will turn up． 5 a kindly new postman．Tell me, just what kind of accident did you have?”
When I told her the whole 6 , she said, “ You did the right thing．I won’t set(安放) 7 in a car with a man who has even drunk a mall glass of wine．That’s how I lost my 8 ．We had lived together for forty years, forty happy years, and I lost him because of a drunken(酒后的)driver……
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