EXERCISE: After the Wedding Bells?

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Original posting 2 April 2009

And they lived happily ever after?

Writer's Digest, October 2007, page 21, offers a contest prompt:

"After years with a traveling carnival, the strong man and bearded lady try to adjust to a normal life as a married couple." Taken from The Writer's Book of Matches by the staff of fresh boiled peanuts, a literary journal

Two characters learning to live together. Feel free to adjust the characters -- do any of us really fit into this world? And learning about marriage together -- I think any married couple will tell you that's an adventure. Work, housing, the neighbors, children?

Go ahead, tell us about a happily ever after couple.