“We have the one line. For the others you’ll have to see a higher authority.”
From Chapter 24, “How Everyone Else Does It,” of The Marriage Contract, 2027, which reads the law of marriage as the prenup every married couple already has.
A bearded man in a suit and four women in plain dresses stand at a county clerk's counter. The clerk holds up a marriage license form. It has one line, marked Spouse.
