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12) Do you think it’s a good thing for parents to live with their married
children?
13) Do you know a lot of your neighbours?
14) Do you recognize all the people who live within a hundred yards of your
home?
15) Would you rather live in: an isolated house; a village; a small country town;
a medium-sized town; a big city?
16) Who do you get on best with?
- people you are related to
- people you went to school / college with
- people you study at the University with
- other people (who?)
17) What places do you feel most at home in?
- the place you were born in
- the place(s) you grew up in
- the place you live in now
- other places (where?)
18) Do you consider yourself: a) rootless;
b) well-rooted;
c) something between the two?
PART 2. COURTSHIP AND MARRIAGE
Introduction
Marriage is a thing which only a rare person in his or her life avoids.
True bachelors and spinsters make up only a small percent of the population;
most single people are “alone but not lonely”.
Millions of others get married because of the fun of family life. And it is
fun, if one takes it with a sense of humor.
There is a lot of fun in falling in love with someone and chasing a pro-
spective fiancée, which means dating and going out with the candidate. All the
relatives (parents, grandparents and great-grand-parents, brothers and
sisters, cousins, aunts and uncles, nieces and nephews, stepmothers and
stepfathers and all in-laws) meanwhile have the fun of criticizing your choice
and giving advice. The trick here is not to listen to them but propose to your
bride-to-be and somehow get her to accept your proposal. Then you may
arrange the engagement and fix the day of the wedding.
What fun it is to get all those things, whose names start with the word
“wed-ding” – dress, rings, cars, flowers, cakes, etc.! It is great fun to pay for
them. It is fun for the bride and the groom to escape from the guests and go on
a honeymoon trip, especially if it is a wedding present from the parents. The
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