When we moved to Aberdeen, people told us the people were like the granite, hard to chip. My wife's vivacious personality soon overcame that. Her outgoing personality was infectious and from a rather sombre dull laddie I became a bit of an extrovert. I had to,there a flow of relatives came to 'make sure she was all right'. She was a town girl after all and was now in the depths of the country, going for walks  and getting involved with the Brownies and community gala day floats.  
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