We returned to the worst news possible. our friend's wife had died on Tuesday the day of our flight from Manchester. Mariam was German and had met and married our friend when he was an engineering student there. She had lived here for 20 years or more and changed her name to Mariam to reflect her new religion. About 3 years ago she had cancer which was declared cured but she had increasing difficult with the use of her legs and had had to spend the last couple of years upstairs, barely leaving the house except for medical appointments. For the last 3 months she had been paralysed. She died on Tuesday morning at home just before the flight her brother had arranged to take her back to Germany for treatment. Presumably her subconcious wanted to die in Morocco.
Mariam and I shared no language and she had long been housebound but I remeber her as a lovely bright kind person. Those of you who know our friend will know he is a lovely man and that she was lucky to have him but those of us who know Mariam also know that he was very lucky to have her.
Thank you for sharing all this, sorry i didn't read it earlier. The garden is a credit to both of you and your friend. Hope things will be alright for his family.
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