People marry for a variety of reasons and with varying results. But to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.
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Yet creeds mean very little, Coth answered the dark god, still speaking almost gently. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
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