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What would Jane Eyre...
Step 1: Find the facts. The heroine of Charlotte Bront's Jane Eyre is an orphan with only enough cash for a one-way coach from fianc Edward Rochester's Thornfield estate. When hitching on Greyhound is your alternative to putting on the ring, get ready to live with a few little white lies. Dreamboat, unfortunately, doesn't deny a thing. He leads his governess-turned-love interest up the stairs to their attic, where Jane makes the acquaintance of Bertha, a homicidal maniac with a penchant for matches and a very valid marriage certificate to Rochester. This is what...
Step 2: Get some distance. If your wedding day seems like a Jerry Springer episode and you don't want to meet another surprise guest, there's no shame in the runaway game. Jane, for one, hits the road, bums it up, meets long-lost missionary relatives and inherits a fortune. Next to diamonds, a few thousand pounds a year is a girl's best friend. Soon, however, Jane's chilly cousin Reverend Rivers proposes marriage with the promise of a lifetime honeymoon spent preaching to unenlightened savages of India. While a man of the cloth suggests some stability, marrying...
Step 3: Forgive and forget. Like Rochester, love doesn't see 20/20. Jane marries her singed-but-single steady and they settle down in his farmhouse to start a nice little repressed upper-class English family. Matrimony may not be heaven, ladies, but it sure beats growing old alone...
The rules do not apply to personal addresses like jane_doe@harvard.edu, according to the guidelines. Wald also said it does not apply to personal home pages, such as www.fas.harvard.edu/ ~doe.