When her foster daughter married recently, Kristina performed the role of mother of the bride.
(She went back to see the Busbys in Maidenhead occasionally. Her foster sister, Nan, married a bank manager and wrote several Mills and Boons; her foster brother, Cecil, became a publican).
How like the American 'religious' right's demonization of gays, which, with similar irony, asserts that keeping same-sex partners from being married will foster heterosexual unions, forestall divorces and preserve the otherwise faltering 'traditional family'.
As these seniors originally came from different provinces of China in their teenage years, many of them never married, never fostered a child, and had limit friendships.
Even so, voters in Arizona and Florida banned same-sex marriage in their states, and in a related measure Arkansas voters required that foster parents be a married couple.
Fortunately, Sherman's soldiers took notice.Mr O'Connell's writing can be engaging, but he overplays his hand in ascribing strategic and tactical motives to every aspect of Sherman's life, from his pre-war fling with banking to his bizarre family life (he married his foster sister, leading to drama "worthy of Dickens", Mr O'Connell writes).
In 1864, Evans married Mary Spence Brown, Foster's niece, and the couple lived in Witley, Surrey.
In 1850, Sherman was promoted to the substantive rank of Captain and married his foster sister, Eleanor Boyle Ellen Ewingwing, four years younger, in a Washington ceremony attended by President Zachary Taylor and other political luminaries.
