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Marriage is no barrier to love

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19890521
Author:Ann Gerber

`Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses." - H.H. Munro (1870-1916)

Marriage is a puzzlement even for the rich and famous. Yves Montand, debonair French actor who recently fathered a child, dallied with Marilyn Monroe and others while married to the late Simone Signoret. Yves once said, "A man can have two, maybe three, love affairs while he's married. After that it's cheating."

"Marriage has driven more than one man to sex," reported Peter DeVries.

Tommy Manville had 10 wives, each of whom got a million in alimony. "She cried and the judge wiped her tears ...

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