Were Americans at large to be as accommodating as we swear we are, the nation might do so well.

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"We promise and swear to observe with the greatest fidelity and with all persons, clerical or lay, secrecy regarding everything that in any way relates to the election of the Roman pontiff, " the cardinals said under the looming fresco of Michelangelo's Last Judgment.

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At the town hall in Huntsville, we fill out forms that swear to our single state and we make an appointment to be married by a justice of the peace.

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Printers have come a long way since those noisy dot matrix machines we once used back in the day (and amazingly some retail stores and airlines still swear by).

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