They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood destroyed them all. <\/i><\/p>\n
\u2014Luke 17:27<\/i><\/p>\n
3297<\/b> Most Married Person<\/b><\/p>\n
According to the Guinness Book of Records<\/i>, the greatest number of marriages (in the monogamous world) was contracted by an American, Glynn de Moss Wolfe, who married 19 times since 1931. <\/p>\n
He keeps two wedding dresses in his closet for ready use. They are of different sizes. He has, however, suffered 16 mothers-in-law. <\/p>\n
3298<\/b> Marrying Each Other 27 Times<\/b><\/p>\n
To protest against the increasing number of divorces, James and Mary Grady of Illinois married each other\u2014again and again\u2014for 27 times between 1964\u201369. <\/p>\n
They have gone through the ceremonies in 25 different states, 3 times in a day, twice in an hour, and twice over TV<\/p>\n
3299<\/b> Former Oldest Bridegroom<\/b><\/p>\n
The oldest recorded bridegroom had been Ralph Cambridge, 105, of South Africa, who married Mrs. Adriana Kapp, 70, in 1971. <\/p>\n
3300<\/b> Latest Oldest Bridegroom<\/b><\/p>\n
But the record went to the Caribbeans in 1975 when a 115-year-old man from Puerto Rico came to the Dominican Republic on vacation and ended up marrying a 16-year-old woman, 99 years his junior. <\/p>\n
Ramon Garcia Diaz, who had never been married before, said that \u201cI didn\u2019t have time before. I\u2019ve been an adventurer.\u201d<\/p>\n
3301<\/b> Peak Year For U.S. Marriages<\/b><\/p>\n
The peak year for marriages in the U. S. was 1946, when 2.3 million couples said \u201cI do.\u201d Sometime now, however, that record will be broken\u2014the estimate is for 2.6 million in the 1980s. <\/p>\n
The number of marriages will taper off in the 1990s, because of the fewer children born over the past decade, who will then reach marriageable age. <\/p>\n
3302<\/b> Married People Live Longer<\/b><\/p>\n
According to insurance statistics, the death rate for married men aged 25 to 34 is 1.5 per thousand; for single men it is twice as high\u2014more than 3.5 per thousand. <\/p>\n
The difference is greater as men grow older: In the 35 to 44 group, the death rate for married men is 3.1 per thousand; for unmarried it is 8.3. <\/p>\n
Among all women, the mortality rate for single females is almost twice that of women who are or have been married. Which could mean that the moral is: Better wed than dead. <\/p>\n
\u2014New York Times<\/i><\/p>\n
3303<\/b> Wedding Capital Of World<\/b><\/p>\n
In Noah\u2019s day they were marrying and giving in marriage. So in Las Vegas today, The Flamingo gambling hall has a chapel with a wedding service director, \u201cavailable twenty-four hours a day.\u201d A candlelit service is advertised, with organ music\u2014a \u201cwedding you\u2019ll always remember.\u201d The Hitching Post Wedding Chapel advertises\u2014\u201dFee, ten dollars for use of the chapel \u2026 No waiting period, or physical exam. Ministers on call, day and night.\u201d Las Vegas boasts that it is the wedding capital of the country. The great god, mammon, presides over all of this. <\/p>\n
\u2014Christian Victory<\/i><\/p>\n
3304<\/b> Twisting The Hold-up<\/b><\/p>\n
Antonio Cervantes of Mexico City, with no money to pay for the wedding bill, tried by holding up the house of his father-in-law-elect. \u201cI had no money, and he\u2019s rich,\u201d Antonio explained. His bride-to-be had no comment. <\/p>\n
3305<\/b> Changing His Mind Again<\/b><\/p>\n
In Santa Fe, a man phoned the New Mexican to ask that his engagement notice be withdrawn, was told that the item had already gone to press, and remarked philosophically: \u201cOh, well, I guess I\u2019ll marry her then.\u201d<\/p>\n
3306<\/b> Bible Quote Over Jury Duty<\/b><\/p>\n
A Houston newlywed used a Bible quotation to be excused from jury duty: \u201cWhen a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business; but he shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken\u201d (Deut. 25:5). <\/p>\n
The judge sent him home. <\/p>\n
\u2014United Press International<\/p>\n
3307<\/b> Forward To Silver Anniversary<\/b><\/p>\n
In Coventry, England, a man called at the Citizens\u2019 Advice Bureau and asked to have his wife traced. It transpired that they had parted three days after their wedding nearly 25 years before, and hadn\u2019t seen each other since. Asked whether he was thinking of a divorce, the man replied, \u201cOh, no. I was just thinking it would be nice to get together to celebrate our silver wedding anniversary.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Weekly News<\/i>, London<\/p>\n
3308<\/b> The Daughter In India<\/b><\/p>\n
Marrying off a girl can be an expensive process for an upper or middle-class family in India, where the bride\u2019s family is expected to make a hefty settlement (dowry) in cash and gifts to the groom. There is an Indian folksaying to the effect that it is better to be childless than to have a daughter. <\/p>\n
3309<\/b> Rising Cost Of Oil-Brides<\/b><\/p>\n
Tripoli, Libya (AP)\u2014Libya\u2019s oil boom is pricing its women out of the marriage market. <\/p>\n
The usual stiff fee demanded by fathers of prospective brides\u2014about 1,000 dinars, or $3,500 in cash with a camel, sheep and some gold coins thrown in\u2014has grown out of hand in this society fueled by oil revenue. <\/p>\n
The groom\u2019s family in a \u201clow bracket\u201d transaction now gives the equivalent of $12,000 in cash and a new car, in addition to the customary camel and a sheep or two. In the upper brackets, gifts of $35,000 in cash aren\u2019t unusual. <\/p>\n
Some men succumb to what amounts to an ultimatum and pay the demanded sum as readily as Libya\u2019s $5 billion-a-year income from oil pumps cash into nomad hands that had none a few years ago. <\/p>\n
Others, however, are crossing frontiers in search of mates far less expensive. Officials lack figures, but sources report hundreds of Libyan males have gone west to Tunisia and east to Egypt where the price of a wife is said to be around $200. <\/p>\n
UNUSUAL PARTNERS<\/p>\n
3310<\/b> Grade School Boy Weds Teacher<\/b><\/p>\n
From the Philippines comes this report: A fourth grader, Thomas Bautista, 14, was married to a widowed teacher by the Mayor at the town hall. <\/p>\n
The bride, Julia N. Sumaguit, mother of four, is from the hometown of President Marcos. Her eldest is a boy about the same age as her new husband. <\/p>\n
Mrs. Bautista teaches at Tibagan elementary school where her husband is enrolled. She was assigned there after passing a competitive test for teachers. According to Bautista\u2019s teacher-in-charge, Silvestre Mariano, the young bridegroom, \u201cis a bright boy and ranks first in his class.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mariano, who was among the wedding sponsors said Mrs. Bautista had confided to him she was willing to see her husband through school \u201cfor as long as he wishes to study.\u201d<\/p>\n
3311<\/b> Grandma Takes Young Husband<\/b><\/p>\n
Fortaleza, Brazil (AP)\u2014A 71-year-old great-grandmother took a 22-year-old husband in this northern port city during a ceremony attended mainly by curious spectators and newsmen. <\/p>\n
\u201cI am absolutely certain Cosmos is not marrying me to gain anything: I am retired and earn little,\u201d said twice-widowed Rozena Barroso Lima. <\/p>\n
\u201cI am marrying Rozena because I love her, because l haven\u2019t met anyone as good as she,\u201d said Da Silva. <\/p>\n
The bride has nine children, 47 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. <\/p>\n
None of the bride\u2019s children, grandchildren and great- grandchildren were present at the ceremony. <\/p>\n
3312<\/b> Bride Had 13 Bullets In Her<\/b><\/p>\n
Kfar Sava, Israel, (UPI)\u2014Zadok Nager, 35, and France Peretz, 28, proving that love conquers all, even the 13 submachinegun bullets he shot into her, were married for the second time. <\/p>\n
The couple, who had already divorced each other once, were courting again when Nager suspected his ex-wife of being unfaithful and shot her. <\/p>\n
After recovering from the shooting, Miss Peretz visited Nager in jail, pending his trial for attempted murder. Nager told a district court judge in Tel Aviv, \u201cShe forgives me and we love each other.\u201d<\/p>\n
Guarded by two plain-clothes policemen, the two were wedded. Then Nager was escorted back to his cell. <\/p>\n
3313<\/b> Midget To Wed Tall Girl<\/b><\/p>\n
Born midget, Ettore Panicucci, 30, who bills himself as the world\u2019s smallest man, obviously wants to marry a woman he can look up to. But there\u2019ll be no need to place his bride on a pedestal. He\u2019s engaged to Aniko Bethlen, 26, of Budapest, Hungary. She\u2019s a tall skating ballerina and he\u2019s a skating clown in the Italian ice show, \u201cCirco sul Ghiaccio.\u201d They\u2019ll be married next month. <\/p>\n
\u2014United Press International<\/p>\n
3314<\/b> What A Tie-up! <\/b><\/p>\n
At New Philadelphia, Ohio, a double wedding was announced. A nineteen-year-old boy was to marry a sixteen-year-old girl. His seventeen-year-old sister was to wed the father of his bride. <\/p>\n
I don\u2019t know if that confuses you as much as it does me, but the upshot of it would be that the sister would become her brother\u2019s mother-in-law, and the brother of the sister would become his father-in-law\u2019s brother-in-law. And his bride would become her father\u2019s sister-in-law. And their children would be first cousins of the sister-in-law\u2019s mother-in-law. <\/p>\n
And again, at Aberdeen, South Dakota, Virgil Schense became his father\u2019s brother-in-law and the uncle of his three brothers and sisters. His three sisters became nieces of his wife and also her sisters-in-law. His wife became her sister\u2019s daughter-in-law\u2019s sister-in-law and also her husband\u2019s aunt. <\/p>\n
Now how did things get that way? In case you can\u2019t figure it out, here\u2019s what happened. Virgil Schense, son of his fathers\u2019 first wife, married the sister of his father\u2019s second wife. <\/p>\n
\u2014Lowell Thomas<\/p>\n
3315<\/b> Silk Garment \u201cMarries\u201d Cotton Robe<\/b><\/p>\n
There have been many marriages of inanimate objects in Japan. But few have equaled in splendor the one which united two kimonos in Kyoto in 1934. In this wedding, solemnized with Shinto rites and celebrated with an elaborate banquet, the bride was a renowned 232-year-old silk garment and the groom a distinguished 110-year-old cotton robe. The invitations were so highly prized that they have virtually become museum pieces. <\/p>\n
\u2014Selected<\/p>\n
3316<\/b> Man Marries Dead Girl<\/b><\/p>\n
The Philippines\u2019 Times-Journal<\/i> reports the following story:<\/p>\n
A man married a corpse and spent a \u201choneymoon\u201d night with her! Antonio Puno, a security guard at the presidential palace, married Editha Reyes, as she lay in a coffin in the church. It was a funeral-wedding ceremony the local people will never forget. <\/p>\n
The coffin bearing Edith in her wedding gown entered the church as scheduled. Her father was beside the coffin. Ahead was Edith\u2019s godson who acted as ringbearer. The rest of the bridal entourage followed. Waiting at the altar was Tony, who stood at the head of Edith\u2019s coffin as the Protestant pastor officiated. <\/p>\n
When it was all over, the glass top of the coffin was lifted. He kissed her on the forehead and the cheek, while those near the coffin flinched at the strong smell of chemicals. The wedding ended. The dirge was played. The funeral began. <\/p>\n
Tony spent the night at Edith\u2019s house, describing it as \u201cmy honeymoon night.\u201d He said he placed Edith\u2019s tangerine duster close to his chest as he lay remembering their days together. <\/p>\n
Tony and Edith went steady in 1970. It was a long engagement. Four days before Edith\u2019s death, they finally set the wedding date for June 28th. And then tragedy struck. Edith had a slight fever and hard time breathing. The town doctor was called who immediately gave her a shot of dimpheril. Within five minutes she became pale and was brought to the hospital. The next day, Edith was dead. <\/p>\n
Before she succumbed, she was able to whisper to Tony: \u201cIf I die, will the wedding still be held?\u201d Tony confided he said \u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
THE CEREMONY<\/p>\n
3317<\/b> A Rock Marriage<\/b><\/p>\n
If ever a marriage was started on the rock, it was that of Robert Homer Berden and his bride, Frances Frei, who were married in a ceremony on top of the Rock of Gibraltar, in St. Michael\u2019s Cave. <\/p>\n
Berden said later, \u201cWe chose the site because we wanted to found our marriage on a rock. <\/p>\n
3318<\/b> Handcuffed Couple<\/b><\/p>\n
The bride and bridegroom were handcuffed to each other during the ceremony. As they stood there before the minister, one arm of the bridegroom was handcuffed to the adjoining arm of the bride. <\/p>\n
It happened at Cambridge, Massachusetts, where Fernan Lowe was tipped off that some friends of his were up to a practical joke. They planned to abduct the bride at the wedding. But Fernan fooled them. He fixed it so they\u2019d have to abduct him also. That\u2019s why the bride and bridegroom were handcuffed at the altar. They went off on their honeymoon still handcuffed together. <\/p>\n
3319<\/b> Butterflies For Confetti<\/b><\/p>\n
When Corinne Hicks emerged with her new husband after her wedding at St. Paul\u2019s Church in Wodingham, England, her father released 2000 butterflies on the church steps. He began cultivating the butterflies in a spare room of his home a year before when he learned that confetti was banned at the church. <\/p>\n
3320<\/b> Wedding Right At Sunday Worship<\/b><\/p>\n
A young American couple did not want an elaborate wedding and a big reception, so they were married during a regular Sunday morning service at the church where they met. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe are being married, not having wedding,\u201d said the bride, \u201cand we view the church as a family. Here, members of the congregation can share our joy.\u201d<\/p>\n
After the sermon, the couple stepped forward and in a three-minute ceremony was married by the pastor. <\/p>\n
3321<\/b> The Cuckoo Response<\/b><\/p>\n
They wanted a Christian wedding but a quiet one; so they chose to be married in the parsonage rather than in the church. The pastor\u2019s wife had made everything spic and span for the occasion. When the time came the wedding party arrived\u2014the couple to be married and their attendants. <\/p>\n
The ceremony proceeded, and the minister (who happened to be my son) came to the part where the bride is asked, \u201cDo you take this man to be your lawful wedded husband?\u201d Just at that instant the clock just above the heads of the couple interrupted with its hourly serenade. In this instance it was a bombast of seven appropriate cuckoos. <\/p>\n
The pastor\u2019s wife had forgotten this one important matter. What an interruption it was! It was difficult to proceed, the bride never regained her composure throughout the rest of the ceremony. <\/p>\n
\u2014Carl Williams<\/p>\n
3322<\/b> For The Birds? <\/b><\/p>\n
Little Rock, Arkansas (AP)\u2014With a justice of the peace shouting instructions from the ground, Ann Smith and Jim Garner, both telephone linemen, were married atop a telephone pole. <\/p>\n
The wedding, in crisp, cool weather, took place on a gravel road. About 40 persons were on hand. <\/p>\n
The couple, wearing jeans instead of the customary wedding garb, hitched on climbing gear and ascended to a gaily decorated cross bar where a bucket of champagne and goblets awaited. <\/p>\n
3323<\/b> Through Three Ceremonies<\/b><\/p>\n
The news has it that Mary Campbell of Elgin, Illinois, had to say \u201cI do\u201d three times at three different wedding ceremonies before she finally became Mrs. Randy Peterson. Friends said the first two ceremonies were beautiful, but illegal. <\/p>\n
The couple took out their marriage license in Kane county and made all the arrangements for their wedding at the Smyrna Free Will Baptist Church in Ontarioville on Saturday. \u201cIt was a simply beautiful wedding,\u201d said one guest. But the church was in Du Page county, not Kane county, and the ceremony didn\u2019t count, they were told. <\/p>\n
They packed up the wedding party and moved on to Lord\u2019s Park on the eastern edge of Elgin. Brother Bobby Thompson married the couple a second time in the three-shaded park with its quaint bridge over a quiet lagoon. A sharp-eyed copy editor at the Elgin Daily Courier-News<\/i> was reading a report on the wedding when he noticed another problem. The park is in Cook county, 200 feet from the Kane county line. The third ceremony later Saturday took place in the newsroom of the Courier-News<\/i>, a good mile inside Kane county. Mary and Randy were finally married in the eyes of the law. <\/p>\n
3324<\/b> He Was Married Unknowingly<\/b><\/p>\n
At Cambridge, Pennsylvania, Marcus met Alexandra, and found her company delightful because Alexandra, too, was Greek and spoke the Hellenic tongue, as well as English. One day she took him to the office of an American gentleman. Marcus didn\u2019t know it was the justice of the peace. Alexandra spoke in English, and Marcus didn\u2019t know what she was saying. The justice of the peace spoke, also in English and Marcus did understand a word or two, like \u201cYes\u201d and \u201cI do.\u201d And Marcus mumbled obediently, not knowing what it meant. He was being married but he didn\u2019t know it. <\/p>\n
After a while he didn\u2019t go around with Alexandra anymore, quite forgot her, until he was arrested for desertion and non-support. That\u2019s when he found out he was married. In court Alexandra admitted that the story Marcus told had certain points of accuracy. She conceded that it might be that Marcus didn\u2019t completely understand that he was getting married, didn\u2019t quite fathom the meaning of the words when he mumbled \u201cYes\u201d and \u201cI do.\u201d He had acquired a wife, and it was English to him. <\/p>\n
\u2014Selected<\/p>\n
3325<\/b> Bride Couldn\u2019t Make Up Mind<\/b><\/p>\n
Prominent members of San Francisco Society crowded Saints Peter and Paul Church in San Francisco for the wedding. At the stipulated moment in the ceremony, the dazzling bride was asked, \u201cDo you take this man for your lawfully wedded husband?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know,\u201d she murmured to the priest. \u201cI just can\u2019t make up my mind.\u201d<\/p>\n
The officiating priest waited a moment, then announced to the audience, \u201cThe wedding is off.\u201d<\/p>\n
The reception was cancelled. Hundreds of dollars worth of food was given away. All because at the moment of decision the bride could not make up her mind. <\/p>\n
However, a week later the bride asked for the wedding to proceed. \u201cI was just nervous,\u201d she said. \u201cMy mind is made up now. I do take the groom as my husband.\u201d<\/p>\n
3326<\/b> Wrong Foot Forward<\/b><\/p>\n
Uxbridge, England (UPI)\u2014Radiant bride Sandra Rogers, 18, walked down the aisle and headed for her happy wedding reception. So did Terry Chase, 22. <\/p>\n
Once in the reception Chase annoyed groom Michael Rogers, 22, and before anyone knew what was happening fists flew. <\/p>\n
The groom was in it. His father was in it. The best man joined the melee. The groom\u2019s mother watched tables and chairs smashed, bottles and glasses hurled about and shattered. <\/p>\n
Before long the police arrived, broke up the wedding party and arrested just about everybody. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a horrible way to start a marriage,\u201d Sandra said after a court fined her husband, his father and interloper Chase on a variety of charges. <\/p>\n
3327<\/b> Speeding Up \u201cMarch\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201cThe Wedding March\u201d has been so distorted that its composer would have difficulty recognizing it, says musicologist Maurice Zam. <\/p>\n
The \u201cMarch\u201d comes from Wagner\u2019s opera Lehengrin<\/i>, and the tempo of it as indicated by Wagner was andante con moto<\/i>. This means \u201cfaster than a walk.\u201d It should be a joyful rhythmic swing toward the altar. Instead, the \u201cWedding March\u201d today is played so slowly that only an acrobat could keep his balance in the promenade up the aisle. Better keyed for a murderer in his walk of the last mile toward legal extinction, it has become the most agonizing march in the history of civilized man. <\/p>\n
Wagner\u2019s directions were siegreicher mut<\/i>, which means \u201ccourageous spirit\u201d, and schreit voran<\/i>, which means \u201cadvance forward\u201d. \u201cA courageous spirit,\u201d Zam concludes, \u201cis the mood and tempo which should motivate anyone getting married.\u201d<\/p>\n
The cure? It involves the reformation of all future organists and musicians so that they play a wedding march andante con moto<\/i>, meaning \u201cLet\u2019s speed this thing up and get on to the main business, which is a happy honeymoon.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Frank Scully<\/p>\n
3328<\/b> Bishop\u2019s Advice<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201cIf you are for pleasure, marry; if you prize rosy health, marry. A good wife is heaven\u2019s last best gift to a man; his angel of mercy; minister of graces innumerable; his gem of many virtues; his box of jewels; voice, his sweetest music; her smiles, his brightest day; her kiss, the guardian of innocence; her arms, the pale of his safety; the balm of his health; the balsam of his life; her industry, his surest wealth; her economy, his safest steward; her lips, his faithful counsellors; her bosom, the softest pillow of his cares; and her prayers, the ablest advocates of Heaven\u2019s blessing on his head.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Bishop Taylor<\/p>\n
SOME SMILES<\/p>\n
3329<\/b> \u201cAwful\u201d Husband<\/b><\/p>\n
It seems that Rusty misunderstood what the preacher said at his uncle\u2019s wedding, because later he was overheard reenacting it in play, \u201cRosemary, do you take this man for your awful wedded husband?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Presbyterian Life<\/i><\/p>\n
3330<\/b> Take Him \u201cAs Is\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n
Parson: \u201cDo you take this man for better or worse?\u201d<\/p>\n
Mandy: \u201cHe can\u2019t be no worse, and they is no hopes of his gettin\u2019 any better, so I takes him \u201cas is.\u201d\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Paul E. Holdcraft<\/p>\n
3331<\/b> When Newsmen Never Ask Why<\/b><\/p>\n
When he hired me as a cub reporter several years ago, the newspaper editor gave me the basic, classic instructions that I always should find out the answers to the important questions \u201cWho, What, When, Where and Why\u201d for every news story that I wrote. Almost<\/i> always, he added, \u201cThe only newsworthy story for which you never ask Why,\u201d he told me, \u201cis a wedding.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Selected<\/p>\n
3332<\/b> Slightly Used<\/b><\/p>\n
A bulletin board in the employees\u2019 cafeteria at the new Senate Office Building has this notice: \u201cWedding gown for sale, Size 10, hand-embroidered with detachable train and slip. Cost $160, sell half-price, worn only two hours.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Les Carpenter<\/p>\n
3333<\/b> \u201cSin No More\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n
A justice of the peace in a small New England town was called upon to perform his first marriage ceremony. After he had the knot securely tied, the young couple continued to stand before him as if expecting some further rite. <\/p>\n
Whereupon the justice stammered out in a brave attempt to round off the ceremony with something of a religious turn, \u201cThere, there, it\u2019s all over! Go and sin no more!\u201d<\/p>\n
3334<\/b> Only Relatives Marry? <\/b><\/p>\n
The Douglas County News<\/i> of Castle Rock, Colorado, carried the story of a proposal by an 8-year-old, who when he asked his little girlfriend to marry him was turned down on the grounds that in her family only relatives married. <\/p>\n
When he demanded an explanation she said, \u201cIf you and me were relatives we could get married, but we are not. In my family my daddy married my mother. My grandfather married my grandmother, and my uncles are all married to my aunts. So you see, we can\u2019t get married, cause we\u2019re not relatives.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Evangelistic Illustration<\/i><\/p>\n
3335<\/b> Epigram On Marriages (Smiles)<\/b><\/p>\n
\u2022 All men are born free, but some get married. <\/p>\n
\u2014E. C. McKenzie<\/p>\n
\u2022 Too many people marry for better or for worse, but not for good. <\/p>\n
\u2022 The most impressive example of tolerance is a golden wedding anniversary. <\/p>\n
\u2014Grit<\/p>\n
\u2022 The highest happiness on earth is in marriage. Every man who is happily married is a successful man even if he has failed in everything else. <\/p>\n
\u2014William Lyon Phelps<\/p>\n
\u2022 Socrates the philosopher said: \u201cBy all means marry. If you get a good wife, you will become very happy; if you get a bad one, you will become a philosopher\u2014and that is also good.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2022 \u201cThe increasing divorce rate is rapidly making America the land of the free,\u201d a visiting Englishman acidly observed. <\/p>\n
\u201cYes,\u201d admitted his American companion, \u201cbut remember the marriage rate is increasing too. That shows America is still the home of the brave.\u201d<\/p>\n
See also:<\/b> Courtship ; Husband And Wife ; Love. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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