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 to be able to forgive you. If he cannot forgive you, he is not marrying you but instead an ideal.

Of course, most of us marry ideals rather than human beings, but we like to have the one we marry measure up to the ideal.

The actual thing to be done in the matter of telling your past to your sweetheart or lover depends upon your own good common sense and your sense of what is useful for all concerned. Be careful not to work an injury to your beloved by your silence; nor do so by your too great frankness.