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Two elderly women wait in a long and slow checkout queue in a supermarket.

A: Oooh, I don’t know. This is the worst bit of shopping, isn’t it?

B: It is, love. Not that there’s anybody waiting on me like.

A: Oh are you on your own too, love?

B: Aye, thirteen, nay, fourteen years now.

A: I’m a bit longer meself. You know, they say it gets better but it never does, does it?

B: No. You wait for it to get better but it doesn’t. There’s never nobody there when you get back, and when you’re at home you never hear that sound of t’key in t’door any more. Miss him every day.

A: Aye.

B: Aye.