A tangled web.

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My ex wife had a habit of writing down poems and song lyrics on odd bits of paper. Some years after we parted, it must have been the early nineties as I got rid of the television around that time. The television was on and I think Blue Peter was showing whilst I waited for the evening news. I decided to clear out a cupboard and I came a cross a folded piece of green paper with some writing in her hand. I unfolded the paper and started reading what she had written: "Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive!" At that exact moment the same words were spoken on the Blue Peter program. I still have the piece of paper.
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