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发帖数: 29846 | 1 In a culture where marriage can be defined to mean anything…
June 1, 2012 by Rick Rice
… then anything can be defined to be a marriage:
36-year-old North Dakota woman who married herself in a commitment
ceremony last March has now spoken about her self-marriage choice in an
interview with Anderson Cooper.
The marriage took place among friends and family who were encouraged to
“blow kisses to the world” after she exchanged rings with her “inner
groom”, My Fox Phoenix reports.
“I feel very empowered, very happy, very joyous … I want to share that
with people, and also the people that were in attendance, it’s a form of
accountability,” Nadien Schweigert told Anderson Cooper.
Schweigert said the ceremony was a celebration of how far she’d come
since her painful divorce six years ago that led to her two children to
decide to live with her ex-husband.
“Six years ago I would’ve handled a problem by going out and drinking,
” she said. “I smoked, I was 50 pounds overweight … this is just
celebrating how far I’ve come in my life.”
We can thank Mr. Shea for this one. He quotes an expert on the subject:
“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in a rather a scornful tone,”
it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.” |
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