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From: darmstro@acs.ucalgary.ca (Debby Armstrong)
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Subject: Practicing for Their Honeymoon ... an Urban Legend
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PRACTICING FOR THEIR HONEYMOON by Jan Harold Brunvand
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When a minister tells you a story, you ought to believe it, right?
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M.H. for Fort Wayne, Ind., has her doubts. She finds it hard to
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believe this racy story, even though it was told as truth by a
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local minister.
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A young couple, engaged to be married, had scheduled a premarital
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counselling session with a minister. But they failed to show up,
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so the next morning the minister called the bride-to-be's home.
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"She's in the hospital," the young woman's mother told the
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minister. "She probably wants to tell you herself why she didn't
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show, though."
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So the minister went to the hospital, and there he found the young
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woman in traction with a broken leg and collarbone. But the
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accident had left her feeling more embarrassed than pained.
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She said her parents were going out of town for the weekend, and
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asked her to house sit. She and her fiance decided that this would
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be a perfect chance to "practice for their honeymoon." So as soon
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as her parents left, they set about "practising" in her parents
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bedroom.
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Not long afterward the phone rang. It was her mother, in a panic.
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She had left the iron on in the basement. Would they please turn
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it off?
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The fiance playfully picked her up and carried her to the top of
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the basement stairs. Both of them were still naked. When she
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switched on the lights, shouts of "Surprise! Surprise!" came from
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the basement. Her parents were standing at the bottom of the
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stairs, along with relatives, in-laws and friends. It was a
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surprise wedding shower!
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The shock was too great for the fiance. He dropped her and fled.
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She rolled down the stairs and lay there naked, while her family
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gaped. Her grandmother reached for her heart medicine. Everyone
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was too shocked to cover her.
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So, the minister concluded, the couple was never legally joined.
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"The girl went crazy," he said, "and the guy left town."
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