9 Chickweed Lane by Brooke McEldowney for October 23, 1994
Transcript:
edda: And who's that? gran: that's grandpa with your dad...and there's juliette...she was such a lovely bride...we held the ceremony outdoors....apple blossoms fluttered all around us...and that's me afterwards, sowing the ground with salt. woman: clinically, a marriage is nothing but a social contract..and the wedding a lot of flummery... woman: ..just to camouflage what at bottom is the basic biological imperative.... woman: let's face it, tear away the window dressing, and all we're here for is to replicate our species. edda: ..but what do china patterns have to do with the biological imperative?