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by: AmericanGirl

I've been thinking a lot lately about the butterfly effect.  The itty bitty things that happen to us, producing gigantic outcomes.  When I was getting married the first time, we had to attend pre-marital counseling sessions, as ordered by the Catholic church.  I think there were four two hour sessions, 30 young engaged couples sitting on folding chairs in a large room just trying to get through this so they could get on to more important things, like what color foil embossing should be chosen to best offest those personalized cocktail napkins.

On the last night the only thing on my mind was crossing this obligatory task off of my massive pre-wedding to-do list. Then we had the quiz.  It was a simple thing.  Sit where your partner can't see, and answer these simple questions.  I don't remember them all, but they were basic; How many children would you like to have, what is your fiance's favorite color, TV show, food?  And the kicker:  What is your fiance's worst trait?  I breezed through the quiz until I got to that one.  Not because it was difficult to come up with anything negative about this man I loved enough to consider spending the rest of my life with, but because I couldn't decide between the two worst things. Hmmm. Kinda makes you think.
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