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Adulthood - Weddings & Marriage (4 stories selected)


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Good Mary; Bad Mary (story 1 of 4)

Author: R. D.
Date: November 17, 2006
Rating: 4.7 stars from 3 votes

Two people dwell within my wife’s body. There is Good Mary who is cheerful and courteous and treats others with respect. Then there is Bad Mary who is not so nice. Good Mary smiles often and her voice is soft. I like Good Mary. Bad Mary is sad much of the time and treats others with suspicion and disdain. Her voice is harsh and she does not smile. I do not like Bad Mary.

The two Marys and I have been together for over forty years, sharing triumph and tragedy, birth and death, beauty an...

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Sometimes the simplest things are the best (story 2 of 4)

Author: D. F.
Date: November 14, 2006
Rating: 4.0 stars from 1 vote

Margaret Fitzpatrick was 21 and a half, and filled with excitement, nervousness, and many other emotions. Her fiance, James Donald Myer, was 22.5. They wanted to get married. There was just one problem.

It was 1943. She was home in Canton, he was stationed in Lubbock Air Force Base - then known as the Army Air Corps - in Texas.

The wedding surely wasn't the huge, fairy tale extravaganza people dream of nowadays. Considering their main memories were of the Depression Era, one wonders if they...

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If you've partied and are staying over, it's best to call! Or your car might be gone when you come out... (story 3 of 4)

Author: M. B.
Date: November 12, 2006
Rating: 4.6 stars from 7 votes

My husband and I have been married going on 14 years now, and sometimes he and a few of his friends go to parties that his friend and husband have down in the South Bay, about 20 miles from here. I don't care for these types of parties; I'd rather curl up with a chick flick and bid my husband and his friends a guy's night out. If they imbibe too much, he always calls and lets me know they are staying over as this couple has a large house. I have no trust issues about this.

So, one night t...

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The Wedding Night (story 4 of 4)

Author: Roger Kiser
Date: October 9, 2006
Rating: 4.8 stars from 5 votes

"Are you sure this is what you want? Being raised in a orphanage has not prepared you for a normal family life. Is this going to make you happy?" asked Mrs. Usher, my foster mother.

"I guess?" I answered.

"Marriage is an important step in everyone's life," she told me.

I was sixteen years old and the girl I was going to marry was only fourteen. I had gone to ask Mrs. Usher if she would drive Judy and I to Georgia so we could be married. We talked for several hours and she finally agreed...

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