Faith is one of only two things in mankind's consciousness that defies discussion. The other is one's marriage.
Marriage is those two thousand indistinguishable conversations, chatted over two thousand indistuinguishable breakfasts, where intimacy turns like a slow wheel. How do you measure the worth of becoming that familiar to somebody__o utterly well known and so thoroughly ever-present that you become an almost invisible necessity, like air?
Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
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Marriage is those two thousand indistinguishable conversations, chatted over two thousand indistuinguishable breakfasts, where intimacy turns like a slow wheel. How do you measure the worth of becoming that familiar to somebody__o utterly well known and so thoroughly ever-present that you become an almost invisible necessity, like air?
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