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I went to a 25th wedding anniversary – and had a revelation about relationships | Zoe Williams

By Zoe Williams

When I looked around that room, at all the marriages, love affairs and divorces, everything and everyone was as you would have expected back in 2001 ... An army dude once told me, “A speech should be like a lady’s skirt: short enough to be interesting, long enough to cover the main points”, and I said, “Wait, can we just clarify what the main points of a lady are – is it her butt or some other, nearby part?”. He pretended not to hear me. Or to be fair, maybe he was a bit deaf and that’s how f...