A Married Man

∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷ He is an orphan who has made it this far through his own efforts. He is powerful, yet has no desire to lord it over the world. He is lucky, because he has a beautiful, capable, wealthy woman in his life. But he is also unlucky, because she has given him only one year. What will he have left when that year is up? His life? His abilities? Or the beauty herself? He once had a simple wish: a wife who needn't be beautiful, as long as she was kind and virtuous; a house that needn't be big, as long as it felt like home; and money that needn't be plentiful, as long as there was enough. What can he use to fulfill his wish and make it come true? ∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷