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"Let's get married,"
I said.

"OK,"
she said.
"We'll have four kids."

"Well,"
I said,
"If it's eight legs you're after
how about two dogs
or a spider?
Spiders are good.
They catch flies
and you don't have to feed them."

But she gave me
one of those looks.