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x Finke 7 x Rave
The
Borkener Zeitung, Friday, December 5, 2003
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The
registrar of births, marriages and deaths in Borken was at first
quite surprised when a young marriage applicant named Finke appeared
and ordered a public marriage announcement. The Borken official
was astonished because the bride of the young Finke was named
also named Finke. However they were not in any way related. But
the registrar was completely surprised that the two witnesses
appearing with the father of the bridegroom and the mother of
the bride were Finkes, too. And since the official was also named
Finke, that made five in all. By the way, the mother of the bride
was also born a Finke, and now the daughter, Mrs. Finke, was likewise
born a Finke. You call that tradition.
But the Ramsdorf official yet out-trumped his Borken
colleagues recently. With him, a marriage candidate by the name
of Rave appeared. We will keep it short... The bride was also
a Rave, and both wittnesses were also named Rave. Then came the
father of the groom and the mother of the bride that made
it six. But missing is the registrar who was likewise named Rave:
the seven is complete... and seven never remains alone...
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