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Article: How Not to Get Married: Over and Over Again
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- The Stranger
- Article date:
- June 26, 2008
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IT TOOK MY DAD UNTIL HE WAS IN his mid 50s to decide he didn't want to be married.
Given what he was up against, it's understandable that it took him so long to arrive at this epiphany. He was born in 1950 into a loving but fairly traditional Christian household-his father was a B -52 bomber pilot; his mother was an Avon lady. When Dad went away to college and started shacking up premaritally, his parents cut him off financially.
So, yeah, he was under some serious pressure to get married.
Dad did wind up getting married-three times-and he got divorced three times, too. He hardly bothered to take a breath between the end of one marriage and the beginning of the next. Indeed, there was, at ...