"The closer a courtship is to the magic figure of two years and four months in duration, the more successful the union".

[Tinker]

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We started going out with each other in March 1998 and were married in the August 2000-2 years and five months!

But we knew each other very well for ten years previously!

4 years to the day between our first proper date and birth of dd. We got married after that.