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From: julian@deepthot.UUCP (Julian Davies)
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Subject: Re: The Unanswered Question(s), part 2
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Date: Mon, 9-Jul-84 12:44:43 EDT
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>From: laura@utzoo.UUCP (Laura Creighton)
>The ``do not open if seal is broken'' label is applied by a lot of people,

>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...

I suspect that if we are talking about WASP subcultures that
annulments for non-virginity are *really* due to marriage breakdown
and the non-virginity is just the pretext.  Cynically, I can just
about imagine somebody managing to arrange themselves a serious of
'marriages' and getting out of each on this pretext in series.

		Julian Davies
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