<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=551350" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ell Briddley</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ell Briddley she knows of the hard side of life<br>For many years she has been a battered wife<br>Her late husband Jake often bashed her and their only child Joe<br>He succumbed to cancer some five years ago.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her twenty years of marriage one might say tough<br>And of marriage she feels she's had more than enough<br>The reason is not hard to understand why<br>That she will not give marriage another try.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At her husband's passing she did not shed tears<br>She feels her life with him were sad wasted years<br>Her son Joe is married in a distant town with a one year old son<br>And she feels quite proud of how well he has done.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ell Briddley she is fifty seven years old<br>And for her years she is attractive to behold<br>To a few proposals of marriage she has said no<br>She is one who will not give marriage another go.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ell Briddley is a happy woman today<br>And the single life seems to suit her okay<br>For falling for Jake she paid the bitter price<br>And now she will remain as single by choice.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Francis+Duggan">Francis Duggan</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=551350" data-title="Ell Briddley de Francis Duggan" data-description="Ell Briddley she knows of the hard side of life For many years she has been a battered wife Her late husband Jake often bashed her and their only child Joe He succumbed to cancer some five years ago. Her twenty years of marriage one might say tou..."></div> </div> </div>

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