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Oman: Today I saw you, Tomorrow you marry me

Written byHaitham Sabbah
Posted 20 March 2006 20:00 GMT

God, I hate this whole way of marriage here in Oman. Or the Gulf. Or the ME. Wherever its practiced.

HOW can somebody just decide they want to marry someone by only looking at them and hearing a few good things about them? HOW can these girls actually believe that someone really loves them and wants them just from THAT? Samyah wonders.

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