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Thank you for the lovely tribute to Marlena. She certainly was a memorable, larger than life character. I didn't know her well until we bonded in Strasbourg over a love of foie gras and red lipstick. She and her spotted bag will be missed.

And thank you for the lovely fig recipe. Wish I could get decent figs!

Clarissa

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I have even tried to grow them in the UK to get decent figs. It must be the climate... like us, figs like the warm sunshine!!

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Oh my goodness I have just found this Thankyou I have tears streaming down my face as I write Beaitiful and I have learned so much .On the day Marlena qently slipped away she said her next book will be finished the following week and manuscript sent to publisher Her Publisher rang yesterday to say it is n0t a cookery book and is about her struggles with smell and taste after her 2011 accident and how it took many years to retrain herself It will be an inspiration and publisher said it is her legacy book

Thankyou for this wonderful tribute

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Ruth I should have said this is Alan Marlenas British Husband I am devastated beyond words Our beloved Lambchop is really really not herself She is used to Marlena from being away from home But this time she knows Marlena herself has crossed Rainbow Bridge

I was told today by a journalist that animals grieve 50 percent more for their humans when they pass She is a lovely dog

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What a wonderful legacy this book will be... a testament to her tenacity and strength and no doubt will be a best seller!!

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