A volunteer stationed in a village close to Same relates that a girl who was trying to get him to marry her (in Kiswahili, men marry, women are married) burned his name into her arm. His hypothesis is that this is supposed to somehow bind him to her, but he doesn't know for sure.
On a related note, I have been reading War and Peace and one of the characters decides to prove her love for another by heating a ruler in a stove and then burning herself with it. Is burning oneself for love a thing? Did I miss something that would make this make sense?
The flames of love burning brightly perhaps:-)?
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