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From: laura@utzoo.UUCP (Laura Creighton)
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Subject: Re: The Unanswered Question(s), part 2
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Date: Fri, 6-Jul-84 04:09:33 EDT
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The ``do not open if seal is broken'' label is applied by a lot of people,
Alan. If people around where you are don't apply it, then perhaps I should
move there. A lot of people apply it to themselves (I am going to be a
virgin because being a virgin is a good thing - and I am not going to
even think about why it is) and a lot of mothers apply it to their
daughters (I don't care what ever else you do -- just don't sleep around)
and some people apply it to their lovers (this one is fine but I want the
one I *marry* to be a virgin). 

I know of at least 5 marriages that were annulled around here because the
bride wasn't a virgin. If you read histories you will find that this is
a good reason for political marriages to fail. So all the princesses
went to their marriage beds with a little vial full of chicken's blood,
just in case...

There is a rumor thsat somebody made into a book that the reason that
Joan of Arc got it was that she was tested to have no hymen, and therefore was
lying in sayign that she was a virgin -- and therefore she was lying about
all the other things as well. I don't think that the theory is any good, but
I can tell you that anybody who has been riding a horse hard over rough
countryside (not sidesaddle) is very unlikely to have any hymen. I suspect that
the English Inquisitors would have known that.

Laura Creighton
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