Angola Gaffletter Origin
By Eric Marsh
The back story to explain Mrs Gaffletter.
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Angola Gaffletter Chapter 1.
Chapter One. Beginnings. In the year 1872, Corning Muppert’s draper’s shop stood proudly on Nether Wintle’s High Street. Its glass windows were...
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Angola Gaffletter Chapter 2
Chapter Two. Miss Ganner’s Finest Pupil. By the time Angola Muppert turned twelve, she had become something of a local legend. Nether Wintle was not...
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Angola Gaffletter Chapter 3.
Chapter Three. The Teenage Years. Angola was one of the lucky ones. In Nether Wintle, most girls left school at eleven or twelve to help at home or...
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Angola Gaffletter Chapter 4.
Chapter Four. The Muppert Boys. By the time Angola was thirteen and confidently rising behind the drapery counter, Sudan was already showing...
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Angola Gaffletter Chapter 5.
Chapter Five. A First Meeting. Corning Muppert probably knew as much about wool as any man alive. He had spent half his life buying fleeces from...
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Angola Gaffletter Chapter 6.
Chapter Six. No Romance for Angola. Botswana’s thoughts about Zambezi Lollingfolly arrived like quiet little birds, landing briefly, hopping around,...
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Angola Gaffletter Chapter 7.
Chapter Seven. Proper Romance’ If Angola’s approach to life was a neatly ruled ledger, Botswana’s was more like a handful of dandelions tossed into a...
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Angola Gaffletter Chapter 8.
Chapter Eight. Disaster and Ill Health. The years between Botswana’s wedding and the early years of the new century passed quietly. Nothing dramatic...
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Angola Gaffletter Chapter 9.
Chapter Nine. All Change. Botswana’s letter arrived in early summer, written in her usual looping hand but with a new briskness. She thanked them...
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Angola Gaffletter Chapter 10.
Chapter Ten. The Wedding. The first Sunday arrived with its usual mixture of hymn‑books, polished shoes, and the faint smell of damp wool in the pews...
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Angola Gaffletter Chapter 11.
Chapter Eleven. Purchases and Sales. Angola Gaffletter, newly married and newly signed, neatly and without smudges, rose at six, washed, dressed, and...
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