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Thoughts on Love & Marriage (2002)

There was a time when being a bachelor was a perfectly normal profession. A man of wealth and taste who enjoyed the freedoms of life so often curtailed by marital vows and fatherly duties. His smile alone betrayed a life of overwhelming self-contentment.