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Link words 3 . It's over.

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1) When he arrived home from work, Patrick Maloney was ill-tempered providedfor feardespitewhereasunlike his wife was charming and loving, as usual!
2) Patrick was having a drink otherwiseinsteadwhilehowevertill his wife, Mary, was imagining their traditional Thursday dinner at the restaurant.
3) Contrary toAs opposedNo matterOn the contrary their usual routine, they wouldn't go to the restaurant on that day: Patrick was exhausted!
4) Mary seldomtillactuallysince went to the grocer's at such a late hour at night!
5) After killing her husband, Mary smiled as usual unlessprovidedmeanwhiledespitefor fear Mr Green should imagine what she had just done.
Returning home, Mary didn't know whetheryetin caseunlessdespite she should scream yetor ifforandor stay calm ... She thought quickly and realised that despiteunlessthoughor elseeven she kept her self-control, she'd spend the rest of her life in prison. Her baby would be an orphan contraryinstead ofin spite ofin case of being brought up by a loving mother ...
When Patrick's colleagues arrived to investigate, she decided that whetheralthoughno matter howwhatever zealous they were, they wouldn't prove anything ... WhereasAlthoughDespiteIn spiteEven the house smelt of roasted lamb, Mary had no appetite and neverthelesswhereasthereforesimilarlysince she couldn't eat anything! ! She was devastated, in shock and pale as a ghost! ThereforeYetAs a resultContrary to, Patrick wouldn't have wanted her to be such a bad host to his friends, especially as the Inspectors were starving! WhereasDespiteConsequentlyHowever, they were still looking for clues when Mary served a hot meal to comfort them.
Eating the delicious meat, they decided that even ifwhereverotherwiseas the weapon was, they'd find it, unlikeunlessas ifin so far asthough it couldn't have disappeared so easily ... UnlikeOtherwiseDespite ofContrary his colleagues, the Sergeant was convinced that the murder weapon was 'right under their noses' ... OtherwiseAs a matter of factStillso that, it was !
MoreoverTillHoweverThough, Mary knew that she'd get away with it providedfinallymeanwhilewhoeveras soon as she kept her awful secret to herself ...