Forget about your worries and your strife. But this is a serene marriage with little strife to discuss. The river system is in strife. It is a recipe for social strife and civil unrest. That way lies marital strife and an expensive divorce. Those years were a ferment of industrial strife compared with today. More @Wikipedia
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