You are being pro­vid­ed with a book chap­ter by chap­ter. I will request you to read the book for me after each chap­ter. After read­ing the chap­ter, 1. short­en the chap­ter to no less than 300 words and no more than 400 words. 2. Do not change the name, address, or any impor­tant nouns in the chap­ter. 3. Do not trans­late the orig­i­nal lan­guage. 4. Keep the same style as the orig­i­nal chap­ter, keep it con­sis­tent through­out the chap­ter. Your reply must com­ply with all four require­ments, or it’s invalid.
I will pro­vide the chap­ter now.

TILL DEATH DO US PART
 
�       As of 2019, one in three mar­riages were con­sid­ered “low sex” or “no
sex.” I guess that’s why my mar­ried friends envy my sin­gle sta­tus!
 
�            Mar­riage cer­e­monies were gen­er­al­ly absent in the ancient world.
Two fam­i­lies would often arrange a cou­pling and the cou­ple would
then cohab­i­tate, con­sti­tut­ing a mar­riage.
 
�       Most Eng­lish-speak­ing coun­tries began allow­ing “no-fault divorces”
in the ear­ly 1970s. Cal­i­for­nia was the first US state to allow no-fault
divorce in 1970.
 
�            The ori­gins of throw­ing rice at a wed­ding are dis­put­ed, but it’s
believed by many to have start­ed with Romans throw­ing wheat at new
cou­ples. The tra­di­tion even­tu­al­ly evolved to rice.
 
�            The Uni­fi­ca­tion Church, also known as the Moonies, has pro­mot­ed
arranged mar­riages where cou­ples are wed in mass events. A 1982
mass wed­ding at Madi­son Square Gar­den in New York wed 2,075
cou­ples.
 
�            The Greek Ptole­my dynasty that ruled Egypt after Alexan­der the
Great reg­u­lar­ly prac­ticed con­san­guineous mar­riage (that is, mar­riage
to peo­ple descend­ed from the same ances­tor). Cleopa­tra was mar­ried
to two of her broth­ers, Ptole­my XIII and Ptole­my XIV.
 
�       Her­bert and Zelmyra Fish­er were mar­ried for a world record 86 years
before Her­bert passed away in 2011 at the age of 106.
 
�       The tra­di­tion of wed­ding cakes prob­a­bly orig­i­nat­ed in ancient Rome,
where the bride would have bread bro­ken over her head for luck.
 
�            The dowry is the price the groom’s fam­i­ly has to pay for the bride.
Once com­mon through­out the world, they are still part of many
mar­riages in parts of Asia, Africa, and the Mid­dle East.
 
�            The Bible belt doesn’t seem to slow divorce. Arkansas and
Okla­homa have the high­est rate of peo­ple who have been mar­ried at
least three times.
 
�       Don’t do it! Stud­ies show that 75% of all mar­riages that start with an
affair end in divorce. That’s con­sid­er­ably high­er than the aver­age
divorce rate.
 
�       Men in ancient Greece were expect­ed to mar­ry and have fam­i­lies, but
they also often took young male lovers.
 
�       The aver­age length of a mar­riage in the US is 11 years. Although the
over­all divorce rates have declined since their 1981 peak, about 45%
of mar­riages still end in divorce.
 
�       Slaves in the US south weren’t allowed to legal­ly mar­ry, but they still
did. The Amer­i­can slave wed­ding cer­e­mo­ny involved the betrothed
jump­ing over a broom to seal the deal!
 
�       Accord­ing to the Guin­ness Book of World Records, Bertie and Jessie
Wood are the old­est cou­ple to divorce. They were both 98 when they
end­ed their 36-year mar­riage.
 
�       White wed­ding dress­es didn’t become com­mon until Queen Vic­to­ria
mar­ried in 1840. She also start­ed the style of the mod­ern wed­ding
cer­e­mo­ny, which became known as a “white wed­ding.”
 
�            Polygamy has gen­er­al­ly been frowned upon or out­lawed in most
West­ern soci­eties through­out his­to­ry. The notable excep­tion is the
Church of Jesus Christ of Lat­ter-day Saints (Mor­mons), although the
Church offi­cial­ly banned the prac­tice in 1890.
 
�            The 1955 song “Love and Mar­riage” by Frank Sina­tra became a hit
on the radio charts and was lat­er used as the theme song for the hit