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Margaret Atwood Quotes: People cry at weddings for the same reason they cry at happy endings: because they so desperately want to believe in something they know is not credible.
         

People cry at weddings for the same reason they cry at happy endings: because they so desperately want to believe in something they know is not credible.


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