DOWLING, J., April 23, 1992.
One of the oldest jokes from the ranks of academia concerns the student who was asked to write an examination essay on 17th-century English literature, and who threw in the bon mot: "John Milton wrote Paradise Lost. Then his wife died, and he wrote Paradise Regained." In the instant case, however, the death of a spouse has led to nothing more Edenic than pure confusion; not least of all because there was,
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