"It’s just a thing. You deal with it." "As in, one damn thing after another?" "Yes, very like." - Lois McMaster Bujold

How hard could husbanding be? Don’t drink, don’t gamble, don’t bring hunting dogs to the table. Don’t be terrified of tooth-drawers. Don’t be stupid about money. Don’t go for a soldier. No hitting girls. He wasn’t drawn to violate any of these prohibitions. Assuming older sisters weren’t classified as girls. Maybe make that, No hitting girls first.

The facts appear to be mutating every forty minutes. like bacteria.

There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.