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So she got me twice, once because my sisters and I was raised by what we considered to be two mothers one of them was my mother, the other was an aunt who lived with us and again because my husband and I decided to not to have children and apparently had an unmarriage for 33 years.
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But it seemed to be generally agreed upon as a policy around the world that marriage should be made exceedingly easy, and unmarriage exceedingly difficult.
We Can't Have Everything Rupert Hughes 1914
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If I sum up my statement thus: "Eugenics, as discussed, evidently means the control of some men over the marriage and unmarriage of others; and probably means the control of the few over the marriage and unmarriage of the many," I shall first of all receive the sort of answers that float like skim on the surface of teacups and talk.
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They may be the "lovers" of married women, who come to engage fabricated testimony and surreptitious unmarriage for the frail creatures whose virtue is still too cowardly to dare the more honest sin.
Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures. Abraham H. Hummel 1887
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They may be the 'lovers' of married women, who come to engage fabricated testimony and surreptitious unmarriage for the frail creatures whose virtue is still too cowardly to dare the more honest sin.
Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City James Dabney McCabe 1862
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Senate seeks an ENDA to workplace bias, Maine's unmarriage initiative awaits ballot approval, California anti-Prop 8 forces split over strategy, and more news.
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"Even for a chatelaine who is otherwise unmarriage-able?
Cadmian's Choice Modesitt, L. E. 2006
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