Too Young to Marry

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It was July again, one whole year since the strange offer had been made and accepted.

Walter Harrison sat heavily and alone on the screened porch and wondered how this evening would end. He could hear his wife, Mary, restlessly cleaning the spotless living room for the tenth time.

She had been almost relentlessly gay this evening, and he knew how much courage that had taken. He could hear the younger kids playing out behind the house in the warm dusk. The younger kids had been ordered to stay out of the way.

James and Elizabeth Rawlings would arrive within a half hour. The two couples would be fidgety and awkward with each other, as before.

A little while later the two kids who were in love would come and tell the two sets of parents of their decision. And because of the odd agreement the parents had made with the two kids, it would be too late for the exercise of parental authority — too late to save quiet, steady, eighteen-year-old Jud Harrison from the mistake he would regret the rest of his life.

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