Three Wishes

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S. C. Loader. Three Wishes

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Whichever way he thought about it, he could find no justification in continuing to believe she was a spiteful woman playing a game based solely on her strange behaviour, but if she wasn’t, then what were the alternative reasons for this behaviour? Mental delusion? Schizophrenia? Dementia? There were probably far more afflictions of the mind, but these were all that he knew, and if it were one of these then surely she deserved his sympathy rather than his distrust.

He looked at her dress, it was perfectly clean and well ironed and the colour was bright, almost like new, her polished leather shoes also looked relatively new. Her shoeless foot had been well pedicured, her fingernails were well-manicured and her long hair shone with health. Absolutely nothing about her appearance gave him the impression that she was suffering any form of mental affliction but then, would it have shown in her appearance? He had heard that this was often the case with those suffering severe depression, but could this rule be applied to those illnesses he had thought of? Perhaps it was something completely different, but what? And how should he now deal with her not knowing what lay behind this strange behaviour?

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