A Quote by Lynn Coady

I spent so many years in terror of 'making it legal' because the expression rang all too true - the wedding ritual struck me as nothing but a flowery front for the fulfilment of countless, tedious contracts and obligations.

Lynn Coady

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Legal Wedding Because Contracts Countless Expression Front Fulfilment Making Many Me Nothing Obligations Ritual So Many Years Spent Struck Tedious Terror Too True Years

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Lynn Coady
Canadian - Novelist
Born: January 24, 1970

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