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Weddings
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The conch shells blew as the priest handed me the red powder, supposed to be used to mark my territories. Man and his primitive needs to mark what is his. A little bit of vermillion dropped on her nose, making her scrunch, the red on her hairline established a truth. Men, unlike women, had no symbols of a union. Women did not mark their territories. They made homes.
(Scarlet: A Short Story)
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…I regularly frequent St. George's, Hanover Square, during the genteel marriage season; and though I have never seen the bridegroom's male friends give way to tears, or the beadles and officiating clergy in any way affected, yet it is not at all uncommon to see women who are not in the least concerned in the operations going on—old ladies who are long past marrying, stout middle-aged females with plenty of sons and daughters, let alone pretty young creatures in pink bonnets, who are on their pro
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― Vanity Fair
― Vanity Fair
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