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In Guys and Dolls, Nathan Detroit claims that he hasn’t yet married his fiancée of fourteen years because he can’t afford “the blood test”. Why did you need a blood test to get married in 1950s New York?

by /u/Rob-With-One-B in /r/AskHistorians

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