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Sean South starts now.

Yeah. South starts now. Before we got married, Jamie and I took a mandatory church marriage class.

The Baptist Church would not marry anyone without this rigorous class because they ran the very real risk that unschooled couples would engage in pre-marital relations,

which is not only responsible and reckless,

but could also lead to dancing.

So the idea was, after eight weeks of rigorous marriage training, couples would receive an official

certificate trimmed in gold with their names on it, and this certificate would prove to the

world without a doubt that the couples were spiritually and emotionally prepared to take the multiple choice exam in the back of the book.

Thus, my future wife and I arrived at the fellowship hall each week to participate in courses to prepare us for cohabitation.

These courses featured many fun games, which the workbook termed marital building exercises,

many of which were developed by actual professional marriage book authors, some of whom

were still married.

One such exercise was the egg test.

And this game, the future bride balances an egg on a spoon, clenched between her teeth. She wears a blindfold and walks across the room.

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