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In the West you marry the person you love.
In India you love the person you marry. --Gandhi
This thought was triggered by that moving central scene of "Fiddler on the Roof" where the couple of twenty five years (from a Russian Jewish pre-arranged marriage) considers the maturation of their love.
Would that we of the Christian civilization saved love for marriage and learned to love in marriage.