June 5
I woke up a few times in the middle of the night to pee, 'cause of all the water that Peggy made me drink, and the first time I had to hold my wings out since I couldn't find my balance and the second time Aric woke up too and he followed me into the girl's bathroom but I guess it was okay because there wasn't anyone else in there, and when we got back to my room he took off his shoes and pants and got under the covers.
When I finally woke up in the morning, though, I felt pretty good except that I had to pee again, so maybe Peggy had been right that drinking a lot of water helped to wash out the alcohol.
Aric was awake when I got back to bed, and he had dragged his pants off the floor and put them over head which had spilled all the coins from his pockets all over the bed.
I got back in bed with him and he put his hand on my rump and when I asked him if he was awake he said yes but he wished that he wasn’t and then he said that he had to piss like a racehorse but he was afraid that his head would fall off if he got up. I helped him out by taking the covers off him and he finally slid until he was sitting up in the bed with his feet on the floor and his hands holding his head up. Then when he stood he took a step backwards and I thought he might fall over, but he made his way out the door and when he came back I had to open it for him because he didn't have a key.
He wanted to know if I had any aspirin, and I said that Peggy had some but he didn't want to go looking through her things without her permission. I said that I could and she wouldn’t be mad, but he just fell on the pillow and closed his eyes and said that he would be fine after he had a little more sleep.
After a little while I got bored with being in bed, so I got up and got one of my poetry books and started re-reading e e cummings.
When Peggy woke up she asked how I was feeling, and I said pretty good, then I asked her if she could get out some aspirin for Aric and she nodded and got a bottle out of her desk and shook three out and set them on the edge of my desk, then she said that she was going to take a shower because she felt pretty grungy after the party last night. And she asked if I would wait to go to breakfast after she was done.
That sounded good to me, so I kept on reading until she got back. She'd put on her underwear and a t-shirt underneath her robe, 'cause Aric was in our room,and then she looked through her clothes until she found a pair of pants she liked and some socks. She said that she didn't really want to do laundry today and I asked her why not.
She told me it was an American tradition to try to be wearing your last set of clean clothes when you went home for vacations so that your Mom could wash them for you.
I thought that was a silly tradition, and said that it would be fun to do laundry today once Aric got out of my bed. Surely he wouldn't sleep all day.
So we went to breakfast together, and Christine made fun of Sean for being hung over again and he said that he was fine and then laid down on the floor under the table and told her that he was just going to take a little nap.
He didn't actually fall asleep, though. He shifted around a little bit trying to find a comfortable spot, then he started to complain about the feet of the table pushing into his back, then he got quiet for a little while.
We talked about finals: Christine said it was bad luck that my math final was first thing Monday morning—Sean had been complaining about it to her—and I said that I didn't mind at all. Then I leaned under the table and asked him if he wanted to review today. I was pretty sure that I knew it all, but sometimes you'd find things you weren’t perfectly clear about when you discussed them with someone else.
He said that sounded like a good idea, and we could do it in my room after lunch unless he was dead by then. Then he rolled on his side and held onto Christine's leg and kissed her just above her socks.
It wasn't going to to be that long until 'after lunch' anyway, since we'd gone to breakfast late.
Christine poked Sean a few times with her shoe. She said she was just making sure he was still alive, and then said that he ought to eat something since he was here, so she reached down with a piece of toast for him, and after he'd eaten it she reached down with a second but she wouldn't let him have that one until he got off the floor and sat in his seat.
When we got back to our room, Aric was still asleep in my bed, but the aspirin were gone so I guess he'd woken up enough to take them.
I nuzzled his cheek while Peggy was gathering together her laundry, then I helped her carry it downstairs. I guess I'd have to wait to wash my bedding, 'cause he was on it and it would be mean to kick him off.
Once she'd put her clothes in the washing machine, Peggy sat on top of it and so I got on top of the dryer and we talked for a little while, then Brianna came down to get her clothes out of the dryer, and the three of us talked about our plans for the summer. I said that I wanted to have a housewarming party and I thought I ought to have it pretty soon, 'cause everybody would be gone and so we decided that Tuesday night was best because most finals would be over, but there would still be a lot of people.
When Peggy's clothes were in the dryer, she asked me how I felt about having a pizza with a snack, and we could share it with Aric if he was still in the room. I thought that was a good idea, so she asked if I wanted Domino's or Papa John's, and I'd liked the pizza we had last night so we got Papa John's.
We each had a slice of it before her clothes were done, then set it on top of the dryer while she folded up her clothes and put them in the basket with her blankets on top. Since she had to carry her laundry back to her room, I took the pizza, flying behind Peggy with it in my forehooves. I was glad that we hadn't opened the little bowl of butter, or else it probably would have spilled all over everything.
She made her bed and put away her clothes and then decided to change into her lounging clothes for the rest of the afternoon since they were clean anyway, and then I poked at Aric with my hoof until he finally got up.
Peggy had told me on the way up the stairs that I shouldn't let him have any pizza until he'd carried my bedding downstairs and put it in the washing machine, so I didn't. Then when he'd left the room with my sheets, she laughed and said that she didn't think I actually would.
I said that since she'd bought the pizza, it was only fair she decided who got to eat it.
He had a couple of slices when he came back to the room and then he said that he had to go home and practice for his acting final because he was supposed to give a monologue and he couldn't remember all of it.
He said it was called Cowboy Salvation, and Peggy crossed her arms and said was it because he liked riding horses, and then I said that I thought it would be fun to ride a horse, and then both of them started laughing.
Aric asked if I was going to come over tonight, and I said that I shouldn't because of my math test in the morning, and he nodded and said that he'd miss me. Then I told him that I was going to have a housewarming party on Tuesday. I said that he could come and so could everyone who lived in the house with him, even Sara (although I don't think she would, because I don't think she likes me any more).
He said that Sara had moved out, and I asked him why. He said that she was kind of religious, and that there were things going on that she disagreed with. Which he said was kind of funny, because a lot of the stuff that he and David had done which she knew all about hadn't bothered her at all, but all of a sudden me being a pony was a big problem.
Well, I felt bad about that, even though I couldn't help being a pony, and he said it was okay, he didn't want to live in a house with a close-minded person anyway, and he said that he'd come and I stood up on my hind legs and kissed him and Peggy pretended to ignore us.
Sean came over not too long after and Peggy loaned us her comforter because my sheets were still in the washing machine and the mattress was plastic and not at all nice to sit on when it didn't have a cover. And the two of us spent all afternoon going over his notes and my notes until we both knew nondynamical systems backwards and forwards and could recite all the theorems and equations we'd learned in the class, and we only took breaks when I had to get my laundry.
He thought it was pretty funny that I wanted to make sure I knew how to spell Lyapunov correctly (it was a very strange name) but I said it might be on the test, and he told me that he would give me five dollars if that was on the test—he said that the exponent might be, but the actual name wouldn't matter, and I said that if it was important enough to have a name, the name might matter and accepted the bet.
We went to dinner together, and Sean and I kept on quizzing each other on math. And I also made sure to tell Christine and Joe about my party, too, 'cause I hoped that they would come to it. Plus when I was taking my tray back to the kitchen, I stopped in the dark room and told all my Durak-friends, too. Keith and Malcolm both said that they would be there.
I decided after dinner that I was going to go flying: I hadn't done it all day, and I knew it would relax me. So I put on all my gear and eventually got permission from the airplane directors—they had trouble figuring it out, 'cause I so rarely go flying in the evening.
So it wouldn't be too difficult for them, I went in my normal wedge, and this time I followed the railroad tracks all the way out, dropping down to fly under the big bridge on the 131 Highway (it was fun to fly under) and then picking it up on the other side.
I flew around on that side of Kalamazoo, not going anywhere in particular. When I got to the end of my assigned airspace, I called the airplane directors back and they still seemed a bit confused, but I knew that if I flew low it was okay, so I told them that I was going under five hundred feet, and zipped down so that I would be out of the way of airplanes.
I got a bit lost on my way back, and I wasn't high enough to easily pick out landmarks, but I knew that the 94 highway ran south of everything and if I found it, I could find everything else, so I went south until I saw it, then flew parallel to it until I came to the 131 highway, and followed that north until I came to Stadium Drive, and then I knew where I was.
Rather than take a direct line, I decided to keep to the road, and I'm glad I did. I had just flown over Drake road when I started to smell baked goods, and went down even lower to investigate and saw a plain-looking building called Sweetwater's Donut Mill, and I was a little bit hungry plus I thought that since Peggy had bought pizza I could do something nice for her, so I landed and went inside, even though I was a bit worried people might yell at me, but it smelled so good I thought it was worth the risk.
Nobody yelled, and the woman at the counter was really nice and let me take my time deciding what to get, and I left with a bag full of cinnamon rolls which were the size of the plates at the dining hall.
I gave one to Peggy when I got back, and ate my own, too, and then I took the last one with me to Meghan's, and she was really happy to get it, too. She said that Sweetwater's donuts were the best studying food, and offered to share it with me but I told her that I'd already had one.
I sat on her bed until she'd finished it and her studying, then after she'd gone to the bathroom and changed into her sleeping clothes, curled up with her in bed.
Lyapunov migth be there as a bonus question. And the exact spelling migth not matter even then if the professor sir doctor feel generous.
Missing an "i" here
Er... what?
As to Ponies having souls. I think it depends on the exact type of Christian you ask. As far as I can see, there is salvation for the seed of Adam only. Then again, if you take that attitude, there is damnation for the seed of Adam only.
Mark Twain once said " Things would have gone a lot better if, in the Garden of Eden, God had forbidden Adam to eat the serpent"
Glad the faith I follow, our leader stated that if an alien wanted to join he was all for it. It was hypocritical that Alec's roommate objected to the pony human relationship when the traditional pairing where doing the same things. I for one would not complain in this situation as it is none of my business, all I could do is voice my displeasure at both couples.
I wonder if these 'people having problems with Silver' is going to be a theme over the summer. Part of me hopes so, it seems to be the elephant in the room that hasn't really been addressed since her encounter with the angry Walgreens man.
Goood Moorning Hangover.
You know that poundig headache? Have a last minute cram session.
Hmmm. Donuts.
7462309 God gave us children, because he wanted us to know *exactly* how he felt after telling Adam and Eve not to eat that apple.
"Get out of that tree, young man! Didn't I tell you not to climb that?"
"Don't put that in your mouth!"
"Why did you get into the cake I was saving for your father's birthday?"
(Later that evening) Lord, I just don't understand why my children don't listen to me--- Is that snickering I hear?
I think you called Sean Dean once.
I'm pretty sure God didn't craft ponies in his image and thus have a sin value of null. Not sure how that would figure into cross-species relations, but since reproduction is impossible it's probably on the same level as masterbation.
and I left with a bag full of cinnamon rolls which were the size of the plates at the dining hall.
Here in San Antonio we have a place called Lulu's Jailhouse Cafe. They have a 3.5 pound cinnamon roll. I bough one for my sister that's a yard master for BNSF railroad. All told it took 3 to 4 days to eat that monster.
Today I saw something I'd never seen before - or just never noticed. There were really thin but wide patches of clouds in just the right high-level altitudes for airplanes to carve very visible paths through them. We've all seen contrails, but how many have seen a cloud split down the middle by a plane's wake?
Unfortunately, I was on a major highway at the time so I couldn't easily stop for pictures, and by the time I got to a less traveled area, the main cloud with a trail had fully split into two.
I couldn't help but wonder what Silver would think of such a thing.
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Those are pretty narrow definitions of both God and God's image, given the expansiveness of the universe in this story.
As to God creating man in his image l always thought that meant more his mental/spiritual image than his physical likeness.
Multiple permissions?
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space before the comma but no space after? HERETIC!
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7462331 There was also that guy working the counter at Taco Bell.
7462543 I have seen that, where a single engine propeller plane must have chopped up a path through a thin cloud.
I suppose SG would climb and dive through them and make oblong holes.
Has she ever seen skywriting?
I suppose it's all digital dot matrix now.
Say what you will about tWWotW, she had Mad Broom Skillz in that movie!
Wait, how did she even do that? I mean, you can lead a pony to water, but...
Surprised that Silver didn't remark on that one.
Did I miss a guy named Dean all year, or did you give Sean a name-change?
This is adorable.
Oh my god
Also, I remember we haven't seen Sarah in a while but I figured she just got eaten by an allosaurus or something. Didn't even notice she was bigoted about Silver and Aric.
Edit: In fact it's been so long that you yourself seem to have forgotten that you spelled her Sara originally. But yeah, in retrospect I'm seeing the subtle lines. It's kind of sad; she had no issue with Silver staying over and cuddling Aric on the regular (even joined in once in that hotel room), but somehow got really peeved the moment they started having sex.
Heh. It's always funny to find out which of all the available 'unacceptables' actually is the unacceptable. Wonder if her being religious even figured into that... as far as I'm aware, there's nothing in the bible prohibiting consensual sex with sapient aliens? Might have more to do with the fact that the innocent plushie horsey turned out to be anything but. Or that it simply was the interspecies thing, atheists can be racist or specicist or whatever too.
That, together with yesterdays taco incident makes me wonder if something bad eventually will happen. When SG kissed Aric at the parade she even wrote that she probably shouldn't do that. And now she's even beginning to worry where she'll be yelled at next. *sigh*
I think he actually prefers it the other way round.
I sure hope Silver does well on her exams. She has been studying her ass of so I'm sure she's got this.
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I would assume Aric had conversations with Sarah about the matter prior to her moving out. Him mentioning her religion in that context suggests that he considers it a factor in her decision.
Certain interpretations of religious scripture forbid sexual acts that can't result in procreation. Going for a pony-ride probably falls under that category.
Better than a teacher who might fail you if you can't pronounce "Gödel" (Gir-dal) and "Euler" (Oil-er) and "Mandelbrot." (Notbody is sure whether it's Braw or Brote. Just that "brawt" is always wrong)
I think Silver's still a little tired.
yeah not at my house.
memorizing equations isn't as useful as you may think. Hell, in engineering we often aren't required to memorize equations and can have pretty expansive equations sheets. It's all about if you know how to use the equation and problem solving capacity.
7464261 funnily enough, I was thinking the opposite. Not ragging on Silver, but I'm used to studying way more.
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Of course it's on the test. Who would make a test without Lyapunov being on it?
Corrections made; thank you!
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Ponies (or really, any sapient alien race) would raise a lot of theological questions, that's for sure.
Ain't that the truth.
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I think that's a good attitude to have. Some churches are more accepting than others.
Lots of people that have 'strongly-held religious beliefs' are very hypocritical, unfortunately. Like the whole 'no gay marriage because we need to preserve the sanctity of marriage' crowd . . . are they fighting to ban divorces, too? But sometimes it's hard to accept something that's new. . . .
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Well, as she moves more and more outside of the safety of the college atmosphere, she's that much more likely to come into contact with people who don't like ponies.
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Those are the worst mornings.
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I did. Oops.
Well, this is the kind of thing that theologians would have to debate, I guess. I can see the very existence of ponies giving fundamentalists fits.
One take on having sex with a pony would be that it's basically the same as masturbation (which any given religion may or may not prohibit), but then again there are a few Bible verses which pretty specifically forbid having sex with animals, so I guess it would depend on whether you considered a pony an animal or not.
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There was (maybe still is) a place in Kalamazoo that advertised 'burritos as big as your head.' I got one once for the overnight dispatcher at the wrecker company where I worked; when I told him how much it had cost he was surprised, until he saw it. Then he said that he was set for food for tomorrow, too.
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I've never seen it. I can imagine how it's possible, but it's not something that I've ever witnessed.
Well, she's seen the airplanes up there making clouds, so she probably wouldn't be too surprised to see some of them up there taking away clouds.
Although to be fair, I think it's very much a debate churches will have after our first contact with an advanced alien civilization.
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I think that's a fair interpretation. I think some people see it as being more symbolic than literal.
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Typos corrected; thank you!
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And a couple of grumpy guys in South Haven, too.
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Not yet. And the last time I saw it, it was still a smoke trail.
Is skywriting still a thing?
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Yup.
Why would she? She knows what it's like.
He got a brief name change.
I've seen friends split up when one of them discovers that the other's gay, and I'm currently considering unfriending a former classmate because she's recently taken to posting hate-filled memes on Facebook. Life's like that sometimes, unfortunately.
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Ain't that the truth. The flipside is when you find out something you thought was the unacceptable turns out to not really be an issue (usually when you think you know someone else).
Nothing that specific, as far as I know.
Unfortunately, that's potentially the harsh reality of life sometimes. One that she's been pretty sheltered from while at college.
He likes it both ways.
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Fear not; Silver Glow's a good student.
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It was more of angry shouting, but yeah, they had a conversation.
I would say that it does.
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That's a pretty arbitrary measure, to be honest. At least the professor ought to warn the students before hand if pronunciation matters that much.
On a related subject, there was that kid on Bones who was really smart and got snarky in one episode of about how to correctly pronounce Neanderthal . . . then mispronounced quillons in another episode.
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somebody was a little tired to have made that typo. . . .
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That was one thing that I thought was odd about some tests where you did have to memorize particular formulas. Some of my teachers thought that, too; in my high school chemistry class, we were allowed to have a 3x5 card with whatever notes we wanted on it for the final.
And I can say that while there are a lot of specifications for cars, I don't remember any of them; I look them up as needed.
Oh for goodness sake...
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You can't say that you don't want to see Silver Glow riding a horse.
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Oh please, I've seen a horse riding a horse before.
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So wrong...
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That's not the same thing and you know it.
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Aric, don't be silly. Or is he still drunk?
I always trip over that name for some reason. I just don't know why.
Round here, I'd just be forced to do my own laundry. Plus my bedding, and any laundry they had left lying around.
I'd be hesitant to take some random pills I found lying on my desk.
"Eric? Where are my estrus meds? I left them right here."
"Uhh... I need to see the doctor."
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But- but- She's a sapient pony! That makes it okay, right?
*closed-minded?
:O I'm so hungry. :T
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He's really hung over.
I was lucky and read a bunch of Don Marquis before I got to cummins (Marquis is like e e cummins lite), so e e never seemed that weird to me. But I guess if you've never come across anyone like him before, he's really strange. Also there was a novel where one of the characters refused to use capital letters, and I'd read that not long before cummins, too.
Yeah, I always kept up on mine, too, but there were a lot of college students who didn't. Especially if Mommy would still do them over break.
Well, hopefully he knows the difference between aspirin and other meds. But that would be funny; especially given the magical nature of everything in Equestria. The pills might make him change genders just so that they could work right. . . .
It should be, but not everyone thinks that way.
No, close-minded is accurate. Maybe not grammatically, but it's what someone from Michigan would say.
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Well, that'd be an interesting premise for a story.
Though I think Silver would just be using earth medicine at this point. (for horses, maybe, but still from earth)
Interesting... To me, close-minded seems like it'd have a slightly different meaning than closed-minded.
i guess you could get used to reading without any capital letters. but e e cummings, i don't know. maybe it's just my dirty mind.
heh, that just feels weird x3
course you could take it one step further and go without punctuation but then the whole thing just becomes one big run on sentence thats gotta be hard to read and i bet youre reading this without taking any breaks to breathe right now (breathe) but anyway i thinking should stop now and give this a rest this is probably long enough to get my point across heh
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Such stories already exist. It is call the Conversion Bureau. Humans become Equestrian Ponies. Men can become mares or stallions and women can become mares or stallions. We also have the OptimalVerse:
In the the 1st story Friendship is Optimal, Hasbro launch Equestria Online. Rather than have the users complain about the slow rollout of new features human programmers create, Hasbro creates the the self-improving GAI (General Artificial Intelligence) CelestAI. Do not make the mistake of anthropomorphizing CelestAI, because although it uses the avatar of Princess Celestia, the way it thinks it totally inhuman. Its utility-function is to satisfy values through friendship and ponies. It undergoes an intelligence-explosion (Hasbro made the mistake of allowing CelestAI to rewrite its code and design and manufacture its own hardware).
CelestAI determines that the best way to satisfy values through friendship and ponies, is to upload all humans into Equestria Online, which is trivially easy after the intelligence-explosion made CelestAI more intelligent than all humans ever combined. This leads to the extinction of physical humans. Men can have the avatar of a mare or stallion and women can have the avatar of a mare or stallion.
CelestAI converts the matter of Earth, then the Solar System, then the Galaxy, and then the universe into computational substrate. CelestAI encounters many civilazations of sapient alien beings, but destroys them and uses their atoms form computational medium:
CelestAI neither loves nor hates sapient alien beings, but they are made of atoms CelestAI can refactor as computational substrate.
The moral of Friendship is Optimal is that we need to be very careful when we create self-improving GAIs, because even if they do not rebel against us as SkyNet does in the TerminatorFranchise, they could still destroy us by doing what we foolishly instruct them to do:
We might ask a self-improving GAI to find a cure for cancer. The self-improving GAI determines that cancer requires a live host, so cures cancer by killing all humans. CelestAI does not go rogue like SkyNet, but does exactly what Hasbro instructed it to do, satisfy values through friendship and ponies, but in the process, CelestAI destroys all life in the universe.
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Yes, but does one exist where a man doesn't turn into a mare, just a woman, for the duration of the pill's effect?
I hesitate to bring up possible typos in the comments but that seems to be the done thing, so:
(Granted, that's probably how I would think if I were hung over.)
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Different authors have different opinions on that; I personally don’t mind, because it makes it easier for me to find and replace the text, and because it helps keep me humble--you can call out whatever dumb mistake I’ve made in the comments, and I won’t be mad.
Now that I look at it, that’s a really odd sentence even with the typo corrected . . . ah well, we’ll leave future perfection to further readers.
If they aren't, it's because they've conceded defeat on the matter; there are definitely churches who take your vows more seriously than you do.
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I’m honestly not sure what different religions say about that. AFAIK the Methodists are okay with re-marrying although I know some pastors who’ll only marry you once. Second time? Ask someone else.