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"Starter marriage" nghĩa là gì?
17 Apr, 2021
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"Starter marriage" = hôn nhân cho nguời mới bắt đầu -> nghĩa là cuộc hôn nhân đầu ngắn ngủi, kết thúc trong êm đẹp, không con cái, không chia tài sản.
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I’d dreamt about being a writer in the electric city from the time I was a teen sneaking in by myself on the Long Island Rail Road, and people-watching all around Manhattan. I moved there in my mid-20s after a failed suburban (ngoại ô) starter marriage.
It was a whirlwind (gió lốc) courtship. He visited me in Paris, where I was the recipient of a research fellowship, and after six months we married. But it didn’t last. I call it my starter marriage.
“Yeah, I’m skipping (bỏ qua) over my first husband,” she said. “He was just a rebound (nảy lên) after the disaster with [singer] Eric B. It was a starter marriage that lasted five months, and frankly, it’s not interesting enough to talk about.”
At 18, she was already in a starter marriage, to a physically abusive (quấy rối) artist-hack named Jason Bean, whom she supported by waitressing and modeling (and who bought a green Jaguar with her earnings that she wasn’t allowed to drive), living in dank (ẩm ướt) and gothic squalor (dơ dáy, bẩn thỉu) in one room of his grandmother’s Bronxville apartment with a vicious uncaged bird and two murky fish tanks.
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