Faith is one of only two things in mankind's consciousness that defies discussion. The other is one's marriage.
The question I__ long posed to myself__hether to be married or to be single__s a false binary. The space in which I__e always wanted to live__ndeed, where I have spend my adulthood__sn__ between those two poles, but beyond it. The choice between being married versus being single doesn__ even belong here in the twenty-first century.
Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own
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The question I__ long posed to myself__hether to be married or to be single__s a false binary. The space in which I__e always wanted to live__ndeed, where I have spend my adulthood__sn__ between those two poles, but beyond it. The choice between being married versus being single doesn__ even belong here in the twenty-first century.
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