Every fairy tale, it seems, concludes with the bland phrase “happily ever after.”\u00c2\u00a0 Yet every couple I have ever known would agree that nothing about marriage is forever happy.\u00c2\u00a0 There are moments of bliss, to be sure, and lengthy spans of satisfied companionship.\u00c2\u00a0 yet these come at no small effort, and the girl who reads such fiction dreaming her troubles will end ere she departs the altar is well advised to seek at once a rational woman to set her straight.<\/p>\n
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