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[beetiger]

My marvelous friend Barbara brought mutual-friend gossip this weekend along with herself and the snow. A friend got married to his girlfriend with only a few days notice, because she'd been laid off from her job and was going to lose health benefits.

Is this the 21st century equivalent of the shotgun wedding?

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[serenainverse.livejournal.com]

It's getting to be that it's the only way for a lot of people to get vitally needed services, and it's OFTEN the only way for someone to get citizenship.

Sad really. The politicians will happily trumpet the sanctity of marriage if it means oppressing people, but they sure don't want to make healthcare affordable and citizenship obtainable so that marriage can retain real meaning.