{"id":215,"date":"2005-12-05T10:32:05","date_gmt":"2005-12-05T14:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2005\/12\/05\/celebration-of-love\/"},"modified":"2005-12-05T10:32:05","modified_gmt":"2005-12-05T14:32:05","slug":"celebration-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2005\/12\/05\/celebration-of-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebration of Love?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I was reading the most recent issue of Bay Windows (one of Boston\/New England’s gay newspapers) and did something I normally don’t do: I actually read the marriage\/engagements section.<\/P>
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The photo showed a handsome couple of 18+ years dressed in tuxedos. The first two paragraphs of the article explained how one of the spouses was so nervous that he threw up during the rehearsal dinner and felt faint at the ceremony. His father said something to him right before the ceremony and he replied that he wasn’t going to be a “runaway bride”. The father’s response was something like this: Well, it’s never too late. If you’re feeling this way then you know something about it isn’t right. You an always back out of it.<\/P>
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How touching.<\/P>
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A few paragraphs later the article was reminiscing about how they met. Apparently, one guy couldn’t have cared less about the other guy. While one was talking about love at first site, the other guy was quoted as saying that his future husband wasn’t his type and how he felt nothing for him and that it took a long time to get interested.<\/P>
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Charming.<\/P>
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HMMMMM – not exactly the glowing lovey-dovey shmaltz you normally read in the paper. Yet, not exactly a refreshing breathe of fresh air, either.<\/P>
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Well, at least they looked happy in the photo.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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