Dear future child
bride,
Being a child I don’t
expect you to fully understand this letter. Everyone knows learning to read and
write is wasted on girl children. But this week, the Inter Religious Organization
(IRO) reiterated their opposition to any changes to the Marriage Act that
prevents 12 and 14 year old girls from being married. This means I can continue
to dream of the day we meet and get married.
I’m not sure when
exactly that will be. But I imagine it will involve a romantic courtship where
I coerce you into having sex and get you pregnant. Or when your parents palm
you off on me. Or maybe after I win you in a game of all fours in a rum shop.
Only destiny knows.
