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Hey, and welcome to the Short stuff.
I'm Josh, and Chuck's here, and Jerry's here for Dave.
So that makes this an official short stuff.
That's right.
And we're going to issue a trigger warning on this one part of the story has to do with sexual assault, so we just wanted to kind of let everyone know that that's coming.
But ultimately, this is a story of courage and bravery.
Yeah.
So if you go down to Sicily and southern Italy and ask them what a fuotina is, they will say, we don't really do that anymore.
But we'll tell you what it is anyway.
It means sudden escape.
And in its most benign form, it was a way for couples who were consenting.
They wanted to get married, but their families were like, no, we don't approve of this union, and therefore you can't get married.
It was a way for them to elope.
All right, so the fuotina was essentially an elopement.
The key to the Fuotina, though, was that the couple would wait a little while, say a week, and then they would return home and their families would presume that over the course of that week, this couple had had premarital sex.
So when they came back, the couple was like, now you have to agree to letting us get married.
And in fact, it's going to be a specific type of marriage that's prescribed by law and socially, it's called the matrimonial repertory.
It's called a rehabilitating marriage.
Right?