Christ the Lord is risen today

Christ the Lord is risen today;
Christians, haste your vows to pay;
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A Medieval Home Companion

A Medieval Home Companion by Tania Bayard

This is an excellent book of its type, its type being medieval advice to a new bride.  A 15-year-old, who asked her 60-year-old husband  to be forbearing with her lack of ability.

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throw another fairy tale on the fire

So my muse was thinking about a fairy tale I read in a collection of Russian fairy tales that in fact collapsed two tales, and thinking hey, maybe that could be the central plot of a fairy-tale-mashup, with the ending elaborated a bit. . . neither one was a Pop Culture Top 20. . .and five second reflection continued it from its unhappy ending with a third not-Top-20 tale.

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