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E ven versus a bio to be on, we might remember that Leo Tolstoy had a difficult house and you will a good blinding ego by ridiculous line in which he starts Anna Karenina : “Pleased families are typical equivalent; all the unhappy family is unhappy in its individual way.” Indeed, because the anybody can tell you whose contact with the world happens outside of the reading off nineteenth-century Russian books, the truth is somewhat the opposite. Use the safe span of confining Tolstoy's generalizations so you're able to matrimony, and observance nevertheless really stands them on the heads. Unhappy marriage ceremonies are typical the same, and their similar spats and you may infidelities, the tritely plotted conditions of violence and you can overlook.