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How many girls heard stories of Zeus engaging in his many fantastic love affairs and believed that if the goddess of marriage could stay with so unfaithful a husband, then so could they?

How many girls heard stories of Hades crowning his abducted queen and believed that a marriage, any marriage, could not be undone?

How many girls heard stories of the journey of Odysseus fighting his way back to his waiting wife and believed that to grieve without a grave would be betrayal?

How many girls heard the stories of Perseus killing the great snake-headed monster and believed that they alone were to blame for what happened with the man far older and more powerful than they?

How many girls heard the stories?

How many girls believed?