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Why do you think people want to get married?

— Vada • My Girl

Painterly two gold wedding rings resting over overlapping chalk circles on a dark slate surface.
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The speaker asks an open, curious question about why people want to marry, inviting reasons rather than assuming an obvious answer. It treats marriage as something to be examined: what draws people toward it, and what they hope to gain from binding themselves to another person.

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