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hatchet out to whack at weeds or

overgrown shrubs in her yard. She

said it made her feel better. But he

said the way she went after the bushes

was a bit unnerving.

Walt said one day he and the

young man he was working with

came home, and Betty was especially

annoyed at something. She had a

hatchet and was using it to hack away

at a small tree that had started

growing in the middle of her roses.

As she chopped at the tree, she was

getting cut up from the thorns.

“We considered helping her,”

Walt said, “but the way she was