It’s vaguely romantic in a creepy way that she stayed near where they hung her lover. Some mid-Western US guy worked it out remotely after the records went online - amazing story in itself.

Anne does not disappear, as legend has had it for centuries. Recent research into parish records shows that someone of that name was in Jamaica (where her actual lover Jack Rackham was hung) at the correct period, living not far away and dying at a ripe old age.

Truly it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to pay more tax on their dividends

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