A handsome, wealthy former college lacrosse star is engaged to be married when, while reading Dostoyevsky in a bar, he is seduced by an openly gay man from his college days.
Asked whether he was married when he took a job as a teacher in Beacon Falls, Mr. Limone said he felt compelled to explain that he was in a civil union.
The chapters devoted to the public and private firestorm their union caused — both were married when they became a couple, she to a member of Parliament, he to the actress Vivien Merchant — read like a charged gothic romance.
Their marriage may have taken place secretly in 1429, or they may already have been married when, in 1428, an act of Parliament was passed forbidding her marriage without the consent of king and council.
They corresponded after her father returned to Israel and were married when her mother visited a few years later.
I've been thinking of a boy I knew years ago, before I was married, when we worked together at a summer resort.
"No one assumes we're married when we're out at a club with our friends," Joshua said.
"I have never yet seen the year, since I was married, when I could have spared even a hundred dollars from the necessary expense of living," he complained.
Steil also writes candidly about her whirlwind romance with Torlot, who was married when they met in Yemen, in a country where adultery is against the law.
I was married when I was 25.
