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I started a trend.

My college friends Scott, Paul and Rob got married much earlier than the rest of us.  They've already had children, are saving for home and have long-since become productive members of society.  The rest of us focused on careers or just were too immature to take the next step.

Cecilia's and my suprise wedding announcement though seemed to have set a lot of things into motion. Captain Jay Fultz (front left) and his bride were married soon after our announcement in August 2004. Rumor has it they had planned the wedding before we told them, but I have my doubts.

Newly minted Rabbi, Jon Greenberg, followed the following summer with RBA founder, Mark Shelley. And then.. LOUISSTONE.COM whipping boy - Future Bartholomew County Sanitation Commissioner, C. Bob Moats -  took on the marriage tax penalty on New Year's Eve 2006. As an aside, some people (Republicans) will tell you that there is no marriage tax penalty with all the changes they made over the past several years. They are lying to you or are ignorant. If you have any Alternative Minimum Tax exposure, then you'll realize that the penalty is alive and well.

More recently, Joe Batiller added a shiny new ball and chain in Greenwich, Connecticut. They have bought a house in the D.C. suiburbs and willl no doubt begin spitting out children any day now. And finally, Paul Vinkler (sad, but I don't have a picture) took his turn July 4th weekend. They were kind enough to have the ceremony in a civilized area intstead of the frontier area where Paul lives.

Of course, statistically speaking. half of these marraiges aren't supposed to make it. If that happens, we'll go out for beers and talk about what a total b*tch she was and how we never understood what he saw in her anyway. That's what friendship is all about. That and college sports.

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