Mail-order brides


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The story we heard on the bus (see yesterday’s post) left Emma feeling sad, and wondering how the woman’s brother had become involved with the young girl from Thailand. A few moments later, I showed her one of many websites with pictures of beautiful young Thai woman seeking husbands to bring them to the West, from where they could support their families back home. Moments later a similar site showed images of attractive Russian women also seeking husbands. (The picture on the right is one of them, chosen at random.) It begs the question how could a Welsh hill-farmer think he would be the ideal partner for a sophisticated Muscovite? Welsh hill-farmers lead isolated lives, their only social contact being with other bachelor farmers when they bring their ewes to market for auction. (Their loneliness often leads to suicide.) It’s easy to see how one of them might be tempted into a marriage of convenience. The Welsh lady’s brother-in-law, a fifty-seven-year-old bachelor living with his mother, also fell victim, despite knowing she had been divorced three time already. What fools we men are when cunt-struck. Incidentally, it won’t be so easy for Emma to find a mail-order replace for Alfie. I’ve checked.

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