#1541 Ten Things About Dolley Madison
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The Low Cut Dresses of Dolly and James Madison
By all intents of purposes madison was not a particularly good flirt women made him more awkward not less. The age difference is going to mean more and so marrying a young woman she may not be a woman in the full in our sense of the maturity of a woman but biologically she's in the prime of her childbearing years between say 14 and and 30. These are people that had lots of children a no birth control to speak of and b they wanted lots of children because of the infant mortality rate it makes it a little less icky it does.
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