“Sections one through forty are boilerplate. He’s sitting on the only clause you two are going to fight about.”
From Chapter 30, “What People Actually Put in Them,” of The Marriage Contract, 2027, which reads the law of marriage as the prenup every married couple already has.
A lawyer at a desk holds one end of a ridiculously long scroll that runs over the desk, onto the floor and across the office. An engaged couple sit politely in two chairs. At the scroll's far end, a small dog is sitting on the last bit of paper, with a collar tag that says The dog.
