title: Never Mention Marriage on a Blind Date: Humor and Non-Expert Advice (Volume 1)
author:  Dr. Georgibald Ignor-Amorous 
description: Dr. Georgibald received a doctorate in Non-Communications from 15 former girlfriends who also gave him his last name: Ignor-Amorous.
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  DURING THE FIRST two years of our married life my relations with my wife were,
  I can now assert, perfect. By which I mean to say that, in those two years, a
  complete, profound harmony of the senses was accompanied by a kind of
  numbness—or should I say silence?—of the mind which, in such circumstances,
  causes an entire suspension of judgment and looks only to love for any
  estimate of the beloved person. Emilia, in fact, seemed to me wholly without
  defects, and so also, I believe, I appeared to her. Or perhaps I saw her
  defects and she saw mine, but, through some mysterious transformation produced
  by the feeling of love, such defects appeared to us both not merely forgivable
  but even lovable, as though instead of defects they had been positive
  qualities, if of a rather special kind. Anyhow, we did not judge: we loved
  each other. This story sets out to relate how, while I continued to love her
  and not to judge her, Emilia, on the other hand, discovered, or thought she
  discovered