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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The two of them had indicated via letters to me that they'd grown apart--two soul mates severed. I had trouble comprehending the divorce until my visit, during which they reunited. A bond still exists between them, but each one's life is so separate now that we spent...

Author: By Melissa ROSE Langsam, | Title: I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change | 8/15/1997 | See Source »

JIM CARREY and LAUREN HOLLY's hillside wedding ceremony 10 months ago had the air of risky, throw-caution-to-the-wind impetuosity about it. The two hitched up on the set of Dumb and Dumber in 1994, split up and got back together again just before the nuptials. Alas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 11, 1997 | 8/11/1997 | See Source »

Nelson Fairchild Jr. is by no means the scariest of these, but he has the problems--and dreams up the solutions--that set a very complicated plot into irreversible overdrive. The alcoholic son of a Northern California land baron, Nelson wants to leave his wife Winona but cannot without impoverishing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: CALIFORNIA BAD DREAMING | 8/11/1997 | See Source »

I was glad to read that a covenant marriage, more difficult to dissolve than the traditional one, is being offered by Louisiana [WASHINGTON DIARY, July 7]. In this age of throwaway everything, even marriages have become disposable. Lenient attitudes toward divorce contribute to a devaluation of marriage. It is no...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 28, 1997 | 7/28/1997 | See Source »

Making a divorce harder to get will almost certainly decrease the chances that a marriage will go bad. People who enter a covenant marriage will feel more secure and be more inclined to make the commitments, sacrifices and investments necessary for marital success. However, the restrictions on divorce will make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 28, 1997 | 7/28/1997 | See Source »

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