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Prologue
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Why two people, of sound mind, would ever get married in the modern world.
Sometime before hybrid cars, twitter and dewey decimal system, people realized that they could band together to survive. Over time these survivors may have grown accustomed to their specific mates and sectioned off into little self contained families that flourished with extra hands to gather berries or plow fields.
Karla and Phil do not seem to fit this survivor's mold. They do just fine on their own. Karla is able to find (and consume) enough strawberries to give her allergic fits whether Phil helps or not. Phil is just as likely to spend an entire afternoon grazing on carbohydrate if Karla is home that day or spending time at her real home, Nordstrom. The output does not change.
After some fact checking, the novice would claim Phil and Karla appeared to survive for two decades with zero knowledge of their counterpart. That person is only partially correct.
The people who lived for so long without each other were hardly people at all. They were bodies, survivors, going through the motions of everyday life with no idea what the world really is. Survival is fine for early mankind. Phil and Karla are living gourmands of life. They enhance the sweetest berries into blissful pies and change survivor's grain to the perfect pint.
Separately, they are no more than fools stuffed with raw berries and barleycorn. Together, Karla and Phil elevate the human experience to more than a survival, but instead to the joys that two people can only find with love to unite them into bakers and brewers.
Phil and Karla will marry on July 7th to celebrate all they are now and will be later because they are together.
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