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You don’t know what it’s like to have spontaneous ideas and then follow them fiercely and independently.

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I’ve read tons of posts on being young and in love and consumed well-meaning advice on whether or not we (me and my fellow twenty-somethings) should get married young. And I’ve come to one shocking conclusion: It really doesn’t matter whether or not someone is getting engaged before 23, 25, or at any damn point in their twenties.

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He would tell me that he had told the girl – his mistress – that he didn’t want this marriage.