Despite Nero's betrayal, Octavia still hasn't given up on saving their marriage.

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Alisa Bowman estimates that only about 300 of her 50, 000 monthly visitors bought her recent memoir, Project Happily Ever After: Saving Your Marriage When the Fairy Tale Falters.

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Instead, the Conservative leader imagines a welfare system where ministers in Whitehall pull fiscal strings which encourage people towards his party's core values of hard work, saving, marriage and having children (when you can afford to).

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Alisa Bowman, author of Project Happily Ever After: Saving Your Marriage When the Fairy Tale Falters and the founder of a blog dedicated to improving marriages, has said that once she and her husband embarked on a project to save their marriage, which was chronicled in her book, they actually argued more.

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Kiara Daines, a 17-year-old from Detroit, Michigan, said she's saving herself until marriage for personal and religious reasons.

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Alexander was a Mormon, and portrayed himself to friends and family as a virgin and devout follower of the faith who was saving himself for marriage.

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John and I have spent all 19 years of our marriage budgeting and saving, knowing that college for four would be a killer.

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All such bestowed benefits turn out to discourage beneficiaries from behaving constructively--saving money and accumulating assets, say, or making the prudent life choices, such as marriage and education, that truly help households "move up" to better neighborhoods.

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