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		baltcode on July 5, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: My wife's and my holiday weekend project: A databa... How do you differentiate between saying the project was a combined effort vs. talking about two distinct entities. eg., My wife and my projects were casualties of the war. Did the projects the two of you were working on destroyed in the war, or did you lose your wife and your projects?

delinka on July 5, 2011 [–]

I rewrite to avoid the ambiguity:

My wife and I worked on projects that became casualties of the war.

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