re: #242 Decatur Deb

We see everything through the eyes of here and now. They educated each other until he died. Story here:

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Love is a beautiful thing, but I suspect that they would have loved just as long and as well if they had waited until she was eighteen, or better, twenty-one, to marry.

And not everyone who thinks they’re really in love at fifteen is. (Some are. But not all.)

The mother of Anne’s best friend in the “Anne of Green Gables” books says that her daughter is not to get married under any circumstances until she’s twenty-one, and I have to say I rather agree with that.