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| | TIME.com: Blackpool Blues -- Oct. 24, 1983 -- Page 1 |
 | | Hours before her keynote speech on Friday, Thatcher accepted "with regret" the eye-catching resignation of Trade and Industry Secretary Cecil Parkinson, architect of the election landslide and one of her closest political advisers. |
 | | Parkinson, 52, fell from grace two weeks ago when he announced that Sara Keays, his private secretary and longtime lover, would soon bear his child. |
 | | Parkinson only asked me to marry him after I became pregnant, when in fact he first did so in 1979. |
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