There were two of them - black and white. The white one quietly swayed on a rope, hanging deep in the basement. Soft red and blue oozed through the colorful glass of a small window near the ceiling.
Since time immemorial, people have been getting married, are getting married, and likely will continue to do so as long as they exist. Divorces are a little younger - ever since the church began allowing them. The terrible statistics claim that divorce is not so rare - eight out of ten cases end that way.