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Updated: June 19, 2025

"Understand what you mean by love. If you're going to bar a woman from being a wife 'til she knows what you mean by love, you'll stop about nine tenths of the weddings in the world, and t'other tenth will be women that no decent-minded man would jine with." "Granny, are you sure?" "Well livin' through it, and up'ard of seventy years with other women, ort to teach me something.

Gene Stratton-Porter - The Harvester