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BEST THING TO DO FOR HILLARY IS TO LEAVE HER ALONE.(Editorial)(Column)
From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
Date: 19980820
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In the wake of recent events, consider this pearl from the French novelist Honore de Balzac: ``When a husband and wife have got each other, the devil only knows which has got the other.''
To wit, the recurring question of the day - Why does she stay with him? - is imponderable. Marriage is, after all, the ultimate closed and exclusive society; an arrangement that has been repeated innumerably but never ever the same way twice.
Who outside a marriage can say why a spouse stays or goes when, often, the reason is so tangled, varied, obscure and peculiar that even the ...
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