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My 1,000th Post: What’s Love Got To Do With It?
Context / Color before we get started: Been married, divorced, and married again.
Years back, in a dive bar somewhere in Richmond (VA), my old buddy Redding C. Cates, the vainglorious UGA-to-Georgetown transfer of fall 2001 (#GoDawgs), told me he thought people only got married because it was the primarily acceptable way to have children. About six of us were in the bar together, and most people nodded in generalized, vague agreement.
At the time he said that, he was married for about 11 years, with two beautiful daughters. And if someone in that position feels that way, I mean, what’s the real deal here?
You know the common argument: marriage is an economic proposition, and we have Jane Austen to thank for the…
