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A most tremendous trifle: there is but one social custom that lies at the base of family, freedom, and civilization: marriage.(THE FAMILY)(Essay)
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The picture can be found in most homes in America. In it, a bride, resplendent in her flowing white gown, stands proudly next to a groom, standing straight and tall in the finest apparel, their respective attendants flanking them on either side. The central pair are royalty for the day, king and queen of their own newly formed sovereign realm, facing a future of promise and sometimes peril with hopeful mien.
The picture is an artifact of an event uniquely celebrated in all human cultures, the wedding of a man and a woman. It is, in fact, a commonplace event, in that it occurs with certain regularity and reliability as a part of ...
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