1892: Two Indiana Women, Beautiful and Accomplished, Who Cannot Live Apart

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“Richmond, Ind., now furnishes a story of a woman’s strange infatuation for a woman. Charles Worrell and wife separated because of Mrs. Worrell’s unnatural love for her sister-in-law, Mrs. Marion Worrell, a widow. The women were heretofore highly esteemed in the community. Mrs. Charles Worrell is a woman of fine attainments, at one time a teacher in Eartham college. Charles Worrell remonstrated with his wife, and tried in every possible way to break off the unnatural alliance between the women, but without effect, and finally an amicable division of property was made and the husband and wife separated. The two women have gone to Lorain, Ohio, to live together. Both are handsome and about twenty-five years of age. They say they cannot live apart.”

~From Fort Worth Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), March 22, 1892 

comparativelysuperlative:

jenlog:

gov teacher playing devil’s advocate during class discussions: but if we allowed things like same-sex marriage wouldn’t it make things like polyamory more acceptable to the public?

me:

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“the most beautiful thing in the world is when someone tries to use a slippery slope argument and you can just be like “actually yes, we want that too”
—nihilsupernum