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A Modest Proposal To Marry Changed My Life

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I had longed to be married for a long time. I had to be sure that I had certain peoples blessing so that they would approve. I was tired of wanting for a man. Mostly I would not go settle for any man. In fact I would not settle at all and refused to go by tradition. I felt that the man that I would one day marry would find me. I found it unappealing that the matter in which things had gone on in the past and I would soon change all of

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