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Husband In Lamb To The Slaughter
In Lamb to the Slaughter there is a husband and a wife who love each other dearly, but one day the husband comes home and tells something to the wife that doesn't say in the story. She hits him in the side of the head with a leg of a lamb. To cover it up she goes to the store and buys vegetables. When she gets home she acts like it was a surprise, and calls the police. After a while when they search and can't find anything she offers them what she had made for dinner. The police officers never knew that what they were eating was what she had used to kill her own
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