Queen Mother's Fishbone

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Some years ago my husband told me early one morning about a strange dream he'd had. In it he was at a banquet during which the Queen Mother had got a fishbone stuck in her throat. We then switched on the radio to hear the news, and heard the announcer describe the very event he had dreamt of. We had no television , and had not listened to the news the previous evening, so there was no way we could have previously heard about this event, which in any case, was not made public until that morning.
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