9 Chickweed Lane by Brooke McEldowney for January 20, 2008
Transcript:
"Do you think one day we will become engaged and, in a large ceremony, exchange marriage vows then settle down to a community and a happy home life, raise a family, watch them grow with all the concomitant pride and worry and hope, and in time get to be old and dotardly, but still in love and still the best of friends?" "Or will we instead just become lovers and, flouting the mores of our culture, live together in sin... unwed, sordid, fused only by our sweaty passion for each other... and settle down and raise a family, and watch them grow with all the concomitant pride and worry and hope, and in time get to be old and dotardly, but still in love and still the best of friends?" "Surprise me."