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Article: Arranged marriage? We want love, actually
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- Yorkshire Post
- Article date:
- April 15, 2004
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I CELEBRATED my wedding anniversary this week in what has become a
traditional way - by screaming, crying, tearing out my hair and
calling my solicitor to demand to know how long before my divorce
comes through.
Pop princess Britney got a quickie but mine is taking so long I
could inadvertently be seen, among my circle of friends anyway, as
having one of the most successful marriages going.
Forced marriage is a crime, you know, I enunciated to my mother,
who was shelling peas and, therefore, had more important things on
her mind.
"From what I can remember," she said wearily, tired of this annual
rant, "you weren't forced to do anything and happily stocked up on
make-up and shoes."
Well, you ...