But Tony wants not just a wife but a perfect wife, and when he innocently asks her to curb her expensive obsession, she tries to please him, to a horrible end.

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The family of a 32-year-old woman who died in a crash involving three cars in Berkshire have paid tribute to a "perfect daughter" and "loving wife".

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"Obama is the perfect family man, with a beautiful wife and children straight out of the Saturday Evening Post", the home of Norman Rockwell's idealised images of Middle America.

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Thus we see husbands or father pressured to apply Sharia by killing an adulterous wife or daughter, or a perfect stranger participate in killing of an apostate in the public square.

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While no one is perfect, he and his wife and team left this country a little bit better.

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Chichikov is a fantasist who imagines himself one day running a plush and productive estate, with a pretty wife and fine children, himself the very model of the perfect Russian citizen.

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"I think the idea of having Seu Jorge, who is a new upcoming star in Brazil, and Gracinha, my wife, doing the duet it's just a perfect texture for the song, " he says.

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