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My Dowry

I mentioned elsewhere that I had kind of a "dowry" and I search and I get a lot of hits talking about a dowry being a sum of money given to the groom or groom's family. I don't know when I left planet earth and landed in this deluded, fabricated "Matrix" of a fictional world that I seem to live in now, but, NO, that's not remotely what I mean. Most of the below article goes off on a wild hair about the totemic significance of hand-made goods and their decorations. THIS part is not completely warped nonsense of a past viewed through the lens of modern experience and imagined to be something wholly unlike actual reality for the people who lived it (and I apologize to the author who AT LEAST knew it was HANDMADE GOODS and not MONEY for the most part): Clothing, bedding, rugs and wall decorations were also important items for a newlywed couple to furnish their home with. The custom of crafting and giving dowries has held strong throughout the centuries

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