Marry Young!

Why meeting your spouse in college is a great idea (with apologies to my wife)

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Why meeting your spouse in college is a great idea (with apologies to my wife).

If I had followed the advice Susan Patton gave Princeton students and married my incredibly cool freshman-year girlfriend at Stanford, Angie Hockman, it would have worked out well for me--though less well for Angie since I still have a penis and she is no longer interested in such things. Angie is a lesbian.

Nevertheless, Patton had a point. Her letter to the Daily Princetonian pissed off a lot of women because it told Princeton gals to hunt for a husband on campus since they'll never again be around so many smart, ambitious men who aren't being tempted by hot, dumb, unambitious...

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