In Competition No. 3016 you were invited to submit an extract from the diary of the spouse of a high-profile political figure, living or dead.
It was a neat idea on the part of David Silverman to imagine Calpurnia’s journal in the style of Bridget Jones’s Diary, but hard to match the genius of the original.
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