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The young women || child marriage story 👶🏻💍. Content Warning.
Even though Marguerite Deverels was just 56 years old, she appeared to be at least 75. She was dying. She shivered furiously from the cold, her face was trembling in pain, and her eyes were fatigued as if she had witnessed something dreadful. She gasped for air, her face broader than the blankets. The priest was on the way soon so that Marguerite could express her feelings and thoughts spiritually. Their home appeared deathly, as if it were prepared for a somber farewell. Medicine bottles were strewn across the furniture, and clothes were scattered on the floor. Her older sister Suzanne, who is six years older than her, was crying on her knees beside the bed. spread out and the chairs appeared very unkempt as if they were afraid and had fled the room in all ways. This story of the Two Sisters was an emotional one that was widely discussed and had caused many people to cry. The young girl, Suzanne the Elder, had once been intensely in love with a young man whom she also adored. They were engaged and soon to be married, but only a few days before the wedding, Henry Des Sampierre passed away unexpectedly. The young woman's pain and loss were terrible, and she swore never to marry. Faithfully keeping her promise, she chose to live as a widow for the rest of her life. But one morning, Marguerite, her younger sister, who was only 12 years old, threw herself into Suzanne's arms and sobbed, "Sister, I don't want you to be unhappy. I don't want you to grieve all your life. I'll never leave you. The little sister kept her promise and never married, despite her parents' pressure to do so. She was remarkably beautiful but turned down many proposals, and the two of them spent their entire lives together without ever being apart. They went everywhere together and were inseparable, but, Marguerite was always more depressed and despair than her sister, as if the sacrifice she made by not caring about anyone had taken away her vitality. She also aged more quickly, turning 30 with white hair and a history of frequent illness, and she was getting thinner and weaker every day……
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