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When Morgan Dews’ grandmother Allis died in 2001at the age of 89, over the years of her marriage, she compiled a chronicle of her family in crisis. She recorded 50 hours of audio recordings, 201 home movies, and over 300 pages of personal documents as a sad commentary of her fractured marriage to an Insurance executive.

Allis’ husband Charley would spend 8 months a year in Australia on company business. There he openly engaged in extramarital affairs and sent Allis 8 mm movies of his dancing and carousing with other women. In his selfish mind, Charley thought that Allis would share his libertine views on infidelity. He said he loved her but he loved other women as well. Not surprisingly, Allis could not reconcile Charley’s absurd rationalization with her jealously and emotional turmoil.

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