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The joke wasn't about sexual relationships but about an illness that caused her to lose her hair.

I'm aware the two have a difficult romantic history but this wasn't about that.

My apologies and I stand corrected. My memory is not a reliable witness, but the general point about it being a fairly normal human foible to over-react when you think you or your wife are being publicly besmirched I think is left unharmed.

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