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Why she married him I do not know.

I myself was fond of him but what a young woman half his age saw in him was a mystery to me.

He already had that slow pace that comes over the elderly, while she herself had all the signs of one who appreciates the joys of living.

Perhaps, with my Uncle, she found a measure of economic security that she needed ; ;

or maybe she liked men old enough to be her father ; ;

some women with father fixations do.