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It's true what they say about marriage, you know. It is a contract; an ancient, binding agreement, a sacrament that must be honored. But not in the way you've been told. There are none of these silly distinctions -man shall not lie with another man, and all that. Such things are trifling irrelevancies in the face of the larger picture. Marriage is a joining of houses, a combining of resource and forces; presenting a united front to the rest of the world. Love? Oh, aye, true love is a wondrous thing; pure and undiluted by concerns of power and intrigue. But marriage… marriage is something else entirely. Marriage is just another word for making a deal.