John,
Why did you change your initial response, which was generous of spirit and becoming to you?
Yes, I did know that Auden wore slippers around NYC. He had horrible bunions or corns or some such. I also recall something about his going to Spain to drive an ambulance in the Spanish Civil War.
Of course you're right: there can be marriage without love. But where there is love, what interest has the state in proscribing marriage? Cui malo? That is the question, as I'm sure you know.
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