Now it can be told: I was a runaway bride<\/p>\n
Well, gee whiz\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so new about a bride running away? It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s exactly what I did.<\/p>\n
I grew up in a home with the quintessential Jewish mother. Just getting up in the morning made me feel guilty. I was afraid to make myself anything more elaborate than coke for breakfast because it might change the karma of the kitchen. I remember my mother\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sense of betrayal when I chose to study philosophy instead of elementary education (which was what girls were supposed to study!). Only her friend\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s comment, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153she must be smart to study philosophy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d made it OK.<\/p>\n
In my social setting in the 1960s, the only way to be able to become an adult and make independent decisions was to leave home. But back then, a woman didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t leave home until she went away to college (and since my parents were paying for college, they were able to prevent that), or get married.<\/p>\n
So it was no shock to anyone who knew me well that by 19 I was engaged. When the engagement didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t result in a wedding, I knew that I needed to get moving once again and so at 20, I got married.<\/p>\n
And then I ran away\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n
with my husband to start a new life together\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6. And so far, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s worked out, but we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re only 38 years into it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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