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1  Cover

2  Title Page

3  Copyright

4  Note to Readers

5  Dedication

6  Contents

7  Introduction

8  PART ONE: LOVE AND LOSS

9 When East Meets West

10  A Ringless Marriage

11  A Dress for the (Middle) Ages

12  A Chance Encounter of a Shocking Kind

13  A Long Engagement

14  Addicted to Love?

15  A Marriage Worth Waiting For

16  PART TWO: EQUIPPED FOR LIFE

17  The Car That’s Bulletproof

18  For Your Eyes Only

19  Running Up That Hill

20  PART THREE: PETS’ CORNER

21  A Monkey Is for Life – Not Just for Christmas

22  Finding Shangri-La

23  Making It Pig in Hollywood

24  PART FOUR: ARTICLES OF WAR

25  Married to the Past

26  ‘Grow Wheat – The Crop That Pays’

27  Zen and the Art of Phone Box Maintenance

28  Engineering a Step Back in Time

29  The Weight of History

30  PART FIVE: SENTIMENTAL VALUE

31  Rekindling a One in a Million Chance

32  Remains of a Detached Day

33  Giving a Doll’s House a Home

34  PART SIX: COLLECTORS

35  ‘We Are Collectors ... and We Will Die as Collectors’

36  Signing the Past Away

37  PART SEVEN: LOST CAUSES?

38  Being Frank

39  Building a Bigger Shrine

40  PART EIGHT: THIS MORTAL COIL

41  Meeting a Man About a Hearse

42  Plotting a Way Out of Grief

43  PART NINE: SIGNS OF THE TIMES

44  Nursing Hidden Desires

45  Cut-Price Counselling

46  The Homeless Hotel

47  Making Study Pay

48  Acknowledgements

49  About the Publisher

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