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My ancestresses in their East European mud huts would not be thrilled to see me *voluntarily* marrying a Turk, not because I was captured or anything. They, however, can suck it, as I'm sure playing a lyre in some harem was more fun than farming rye and dying of tuberculosis in the cold. My hardcover biography of Roxelana is basically a guidebook.
Otherwise, I'd like to think they're happy that I'm in a healthy relationship with traditional gender roles, instead of joining the mess many young women fall into.
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