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The wedding vows are a license to be a complete jerk, with full knowledge that the person you married has agreed, no matter how large a horse's ass you are, to stay by your side until death. A fool could tell you this is a bad deal.

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Adriana Trigiani
Age: 55
Born: 1970
Born: January 1
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