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Old 09-06-2007, 05:07 PM   #3
xoxoxoBruce
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Sometimes the system is oppressive and forces people into a marriage they don't want. But sometimes the system is better than ours.
Maybe for the cosmopolitans, but not the girl that never has, and probably never will, travel outside her parents village. When she can be stoned to death for talking to a non-relative male, the "no" option probably doesn't exist.
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