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from Jane Ransom contains these words:

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Second, do other gardener's have this problem where ownership of something
is abruptly transferred to them, however innocous, by their better halves?

Oh yes.
Children springs to mind ))

At least you know they're not the milkman's then.

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Rusty
Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar.
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