Marriage and Demolition Projects

October 5, 2007

Marriage is not a union of two souls before god as witness if you don't believe too much in souls and god. What would be left of marriage if stripped of such concepts would be the legal and social status it bequeaths to two people—nothing more, nothing less, nothing incomplete. You can do it in a church, in a garden, under the sea, in front of a scuffed table with a bored magistrate behind it, anywhere. Sign a paper and you're married.

 
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