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Endeavouring to assess the two girls in my life for wifely qualities, I place them each on divided sides of a pair of mental scales, inspecting objectively, one by one, their points of advantage. I can't list them all; but the personality, the valid values, the common goals and dreams, the clean bill of health, the manner of upbringing, and the cup of happy laughter there to be shared. It scares me, but I still cherish virginity's rating (for the contemplated mate), as it gives a zone for my own (strictly personal and rival-free) feelings for this other person to burgeon and bloom.      Yet studies of imbalance tend to fail,      if weights are measures of uncertain scale.