Marriage is a game. They (the anxious and powerful) set the rules. We (the ordinary and subversive) bow obediently before those rules. And then we go home and do whatever the hell we want anyhow.
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- Author's profession: Novelist, Writer
- Nationality: american
- Born: July 18, 1969
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