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Relationships can be very hard, but in this case death and animals are apart of these two stories. Mary Maloney is a pregnant lady who is “very infatuated with her husband” at first until she hears that her husband has lost intentions to be with her, when Mary's husband tells her the news she goes to make supper but hits him in the back of the head with a frozen lamb leg. Mary then plans out her way of acting like she didn't kill her own husband so she throws the weapon in the oven and goes to the grocer to ask for peas and pie, Mary comes home and pretends to act like she had nothing to do with the incident. The police arrive at Mary's house who question her deeply about her whereabouts and if she knew anything about “his quick death.” The

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