Pooks- that was very much my take on it... I just hoped someone who knew what they were saying would say something first (because I could go on and on talking around the subject, but never actually define my thoughts...)

(I can see it now, Pooks saying "Aryn! SPEAK!!!" *whap!*)

but yeah, perish the thought that in a world of dowrys and marriage chests, a woman should choose a poorer man out of love instead of the richer man per an arrangement.

Call me the artsyfartsy romantic type, but I think love and romance are both very real and very much alive today...