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Hell and back

Melody Francis, the fiancée of 66-year-old George Smart,who was rescued after three days from a 55-foot pit in the Jones Avenue section of Spanish Town, St Catherine, is ready to tie the knot as soon as he recovers from an ordeal in which he dodged...

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