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Cake day: December 20th, 2023

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  • God I feel you so hard my guy.

    I’m only a few years older than you and have ischaemic cv disease (blocked arteries). It’s a common problem in people twice my age. I thought I ate well and exercised regularly but it turns out that stuff doesn’t help that much if you lost the genetic lottery like me.

    I had a heart attack this year, while my partner was pregnant with our first children. Yes 2x kids. They were born a few months ago.

    IDK if I have 2 years or 20 years to do my best for them… but fuck it’s a bitter pill.

    I absolutely get the dread / fear / anger.

    Every time I have a new blood test that shows I’m more fucked than I hoped it just… hurts.



  • Given that the law was passed two weeks after they were married I think it has already been drafted and the whole subject was probably one of much debate. Also note three neighbouring states passed laws at the same time.

    It seems likely that someone said “find a story about under-age marriage for our front page”, and these two hapless yokels (or should I say Johns the hapless yokel) were the only ones stupid enough to have their photos taken.

    In summary, I think society was working up to passing a law like this, and these two had a bride that was younger than most and got married at the right time.

    That said, the author has definitely tried to imply that this sort of marriage was commonplace in the 30s, when it was probably at most “unusual”.