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a nervous breakdown checking again and again that it was actually in my pocket. Had I taken it out, even once, I’m sure I’d have lost it. You’ve no idea of what I went through before we got to the church— my worries melted away the moment our enchanting bride arrived with her wonderful retinue. Beauty and light came in with the bride and her lovely bridesmaids. Since their arrival all has been well, very well with me. Feast your eyes upon them, ladies and gentlemen. They are charm itself. As soon as they appeared the scene changed, everything became sweetness and light, and I became the happiest form of mortals. They are my good fairies. In their presence the hobgoblins dare not materialize. And so, ladies and gentlemen, it is, on their behalf, my great pleasure to thank jack for the super way in which he proposed the toast of the bridesmaids who like myself wish Jill and you everything that is best in the new life which you are now starting. Task 8 My husband is on the front lines in Iraq. Not as a soldier, but as a reporter. When I told my friends about his latest assignment2, each had the same reaction, Did you tell him no? If he was my husband, I wouldn39。t let him go. They remind me, as if I39。d somehow fotten, that he has left behind our three young children for weeks, perhaps months. Maybe, they whisper, forever. He39。ll be risking his life, they say, only for some news. Is it worth it? I understand the implication behind the questio