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...of remaining places so I mentally crossed them off.  When I heard one of the other places, it was all I could do to stop myself laughing in his face.  He wasted a whole two days getting to that one and even SHE wouldn't have been stupid enough to look there.  Then he asked me where I'd looked, but I wasn't stupid enough to tell him that.  Instead, I told him the places I hadn't looked yet, just in case he was thinking of carrying on.  And I pulled a masterstroke.  You'll love this.  I gave him some helpful suggestions.  I gave him a huge list of all the places I'd been already.  His silly, trusting face lit up like the candles on a hundredth birthday cake and I could see it was ''game on'' again for him.  Fool!

To cut to the chase, this morning, I found it.  Do you know where it was?  It was in the last place I looked, of course.  But at least I found it.  Me.  All on my own.  Did I mention that?

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