Family. Ильичева Н.М - 53 стр.

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Some people take a long time to make up their minds. There are people
who seem to be afraid to take the plunge. They plan to get married but they
never actually do it. The longest engagement on record was between two people
in Mexico City. From the time they were engaged until the wedding day was a
record of 67 years. When they finally got married they were both 82 years old.
Nobody is sure whether they couldn't make up their minds or whether it was
because their parents didn't approve of their choices. There was another couple
who was sure they wanted to get married. The man and woman were both
lawyers and they became so concerned about the details of the wedding that
they wrote their own wedding vows for the ceremony. The wedding vows
covered 47 pages of legal-sized paper and it took the judge more than 5 hours to
read them. By the time the ceremony was over most of the guests had left. Only
the bride and groom's parents were still in the room and they were asleep.
There is no particular age to get married but the majority of people in
North America marry when they are between 20 and 30 years old. In Canada
the average age of a person, getting married for the first time is 25 for a woman
and 27 for a man. Not everyone chooses to get married at this stage of life,
however. According to the Guinness Book of Records a couple who lived in
Wisconsin got married when the bride was 84 years old and the groom was 103.
The oldest bride on record got married when she was 102. She married a much
younger man - he was only 83 years old. On the other hand there have been
some marriages when the bride and groom were very young. The marriage with
the record for the youngest bride and groom took place between an 11-month-
old boy and a 3-month-old girl. The marriage was arranged by their relatives in
order to end a dispute between the two families that had been going on for 20
years. After the marriage the family stopped fighting while they waited for the
bride and groom to grow up.
Most people consider marriage to be a lifetime commitment but some
people choose to marry many times. Elizabeth Taylor, the actress, has been
married 8 times, for example. The record for the greatest number of recorded
marriages, however, is held by a man in California. This man was first married
in 1927. Since then he has divorced and remarried 27times. He also has 21
children, at least that's what he thinks. Two of E.Taylor's marriages were to the
same man. But this is nothing compared to a couple in Arizona who can't make
up their minds whether they want to get married or not. It seems they can't live
with each other and they also can't live without each other. They hold the record
for marrying each other the most times. They have married and divorced each
other 51 times. At the moment they are living together or are they living apart?
Another more exotic record is the record for bigamy. A bigamist is
someone who illegally marries more than one person at the same time. One
bigamist married 104 women in 14 different countries using 4 different names.
During one ocean cruise he managed to marry 4 different women. When he was
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