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Sorry, wealthy men can't marry Eastlando chicks

Marrying a rich man has become the dream of most women in every village, hamlet and town. I keep reading their time lines posts lamenting how broke guys are the only souls  commenting. This I find funny because the rich rarely respond to online banter.

In any case, being rich is relative since having a one bedroom in a jungle of mud huts one might be considered well-off. But driving a down market jalopy among owners of beasts whose costs might be mistaken for a telephone number with a country code included, could translate to being relatively poor.

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