You're so far off base this time you can't even see the base!
Fear and bigotry don’t need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes.
Humans were peculiar. They were by turns squeamish and appallingly violent.
Marriage and especially the ceremony which announces it, the wedding... That is how we say to the world, 'These two are now a family, and with this joining our families are joined, too. And you had damned well better respect that.
How to put this feeling, this certainty, into something as limited as words?
But not all scars showed, did they?