Certainly does shed some light on the meaning of "shotgun wedding", don't you think? Money is a great motivator, and mouths must be fed! Best to all, Gayle Cantrell gpcantrell@home.com "It is hard when looking at the pasts of other people to understand the fine points of their lives. It is difficult to know the exact shadings of dates which were never written down and to know the intricacies of events which we have not lived through ourselves but only viewed from the distances of time and space." No Great Mischief © 1999 by Alistair MacLeod, 1st American Edition 2000, W.W. Norton & Company Ltd.