Excerpt from Adam's Diary

There is a humorous reading from the beloved Mark Twain that has become a rather popular reading in lighthearted wedding ceremonies. My first wedding ceremony to include the reading was in Manchester, Connecticut, very near the Mark Twain Museum.

"The Garden is lost, but I have found him, and am content. He loves me as well as he can; I love him with all the strength of my passionate nature and this I think is proper to my youth and sex. If I ask myself why I love him I find I do not know and do not really much care to know so I suppose that this kind of love is not a product of reasoning and statistics like one's love for other reptiles and animals. I think that this must be so. I love certain birds because of their song; but I do not love Adam on account of his singing--no, it is not that; the more he sings the more I do not get reconciled to it. Yet I ask him to sing, because I wish to learn to like everything he is interested in. I am sure I can learn, because at first I could not stand it, but now I can. It sours the milk, but it doesn't matter; I can get used to that kind of milk... I think I love him merely because he is mine. There is no other reason, I suppose. And so I think it is as I first said: that this kind of love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes--none knows whence--and cannot explain itself. And doesn't need to..."