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selkie at 09:08pm on 25/11/2004
selkie at 09:08pm on 25/11/2004Step 1. Arrive large, impressive, vast, intimidating, neo-gothic many-storeyed house of future remote in-laws.
Step 2. Hit the liquor.
Step 3. Sit, petrified, petrified, on slippery sofa in front of fireplace, while family surrounds you. Next to girlfriend, but ah-ah-ah, no touchie. And cross your ankles!
Step 4. Hit the liquor.
Step 5. Sit through oppressive Grace, and admittedly rather tasty meal. Stammer.
Step 6. Give the fish-eye to the man who has not given you or your fiancee the time of day for several hours.
Step 7. Retreat.
She's worth every second, you know. It's just, this isn't my milieu.
But I love her so. Oh, I could not ask for better proof that I love her so.
Step 2. Hit the liquor.
Step 3. Sit, petrified, petrified, on slippery sofa in front of fireplace, while family surrounds you. Next to girlfriend, but ah-ah-ah, no touchie. And cross your ankles!
Step 4. Hit the liquor.
Step 5. Sit through oppressive Grace, and admittedly rather tasty meal. Stammer.
Step 6. Give the fish-eye to the man who has not given you or your fiancee the time of day for several hours.
Step 7. Retreat.
She's worth every second, you know. It's just, this isn't my milieu.
But I love her so. Oh, I could not ask for better proof that I love her so.