But nowadays you find dogmatic hostility to France only on the dottier fringes of the Spanish right, and Mr Arroyo is keen to dissociate himself from jingoism.

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At first, she stayed put in remote Gaylord, observing her other widowed friends do little but watch soap operas on television, complain about aches and pains and seem to grow dottier with every passing day.

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