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'The body of internationally renowned
author Anna Rivers
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'was discovered last night
by a security guard making a routine visit... '
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'... to the disused pier 16,
three miles upriver
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'from where her car was found abandoned
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'five weeks ago on Argyle Avenue.
:17:09
'The discovery brings to an end... '
:17:11
'Before she drowned,
:17:13
'your wife sustained injuries consistent
with a fall onto the rocks by the river.
:17:18
'The damage to the head,
the break to the arm.
:17:25
'When the tide came in, she would have been
unable to help herself.
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'She would have been swept upstream
several miles.
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'I'm so sorry for your loss. '
:17:42
'Divers recovered
her personal effects.
:17:45
'Her cell phone was in her car,
and we're returning it to you. '
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...giving her to us, her family and friends,
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to know and to love as a companion
on our earthly pilgrimage.
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Give us faith to see in death
the gate of eternal life,
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so that in quiet confidence
we may continue our course on earth