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At my friend Hottle’s bachelor party last week, a sort of gallows humor prevailed as though marriage is some kind of sentence. But it’s great! I want to tell people that. So I’m documenting some of the good things about marriage. You can read my last post here and my introduction here.

* Expensive books. Now I’m no scholar. I’m an ordinary average guy - I “pick up the dog doo, hope that it’s hard” like Tom Petty - but my reading interests run toward the obscure. Give me China, and give me a lot of it, to the tune of $195 for one book in a 15-volume series. I’m not likely to make any money off this reading. It’s not required for a class - I flunked out of school long ago. I read things like this for fun. China has an incredible history. America has a good western expansion story, and so does China - but China’s happened during the Han Dynasty 2,000 years ago. To read about this kind of thing you have to shuck out a lot of dough. Or you have to have someone who loves you enough to shuck it out for you. Like a wife. Like my wife