Painterly two gold wedding rings resting over overlapping chalk circles on a dark slate surface.

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Why do you think people want to get married?

— My Girl • 1991

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What it means

Our interpretation.

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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