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Your Future Spouse

Jessy Randall

        Ad in Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, May 29, 1869: "send in your
        height, eye color, etc. and receive a picture of your future spouse and the
        date you will be married."


So that's what decides it:
DNA. Your body. What you
look like decides not only
the one who will love you
but when he will love you,
when she will put on that dress
and promise not to leave. So
it doesn’t matter what you
do, what you say, who you
are, what you want. It's
destiny. It's out of your hands.



Jessy Randall

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