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You remind me of a child-friend who once wrote to tell me about her sister being married. "Now I will tell you all about Bessie's wedding." Then came a long account of bridesmaids, and breakfast, and everything else, except the name of the bride-groom! That of course didn't matter: the great thing was to get married somehow.

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Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898), British author, mathematician, clergyman. Letter, June 7, 1888, to Winifred Stevens. The Letters of Lewis Carroll, vol. II, ed. Morton N. Cohen, Oxford University Press (1979).

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