The excerpt from the second chapter on Romance and Marriage published below will discuss strategies to evaluate your financial compatibility long before you get to the engagement phase of your relationship.

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Hence, the second pearl in the book chapter is: A Woman Should Require Good Finance in Her Romance.

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Roth expands it into a rich Louisiana picaresque, ranging far and wide as Benjamin tastes romance in Russia with the wife of an English diplomat (a beguiling Tilda Swinton), comes off second-best in an encounter with a German U-boat, and pursues Daisy, the love of his life, first to New York and then to Paris.

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