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Your true love promised [[I Will Wait for You]], but you've just heard she's getting married! [[Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder|Is she really that fickle]]?
No, not really. It's just that she's not allowed to not marry. She may have held out as long as she could and just been
They may have told her "
Good thing that you can show up [[Wedding Deadline|in time for the wedding]], isn't it? This can be the wedding itself, or even the wedding feast, for maximum drama, as long as it is in time to stop the marriage being consummated. Other works may have the true love arrive with as much as several days to spare.
Common in situations where [[Arranged Marriage]] is the practice. Though [[
The heroine may sacrifice herself because her heart is broken, believing the true love to be dead; in that case, the match can be made very quickly after the reported death.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* [[Charles Dickens]]'s ''The Cricket in the Hearth''
* In "[http://www.classicreader.com/book/56/10/ The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor]" [[Sherlock Holmes]] is called in when a bride disappears within hours after the wedding ceremony. He deduces the existence of the true love, tracks down the
* In [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]]'s ''[[John Carter of Mars|A Princess Of Mars]]'', Dejah Thoris agrees to marry another prince, believing John Carter to be dead. He appears and leads on an attack on the city to free
* In the [[Chivalric Romance]] ''King Horn'', when Horn left his childhood sweetheart, she gave him a magical ring that let him know that he had not lost her. When it changed color, he hurried back and found her being forced to marry.
* In "The Sworn Sword" by George R.R. Martin, Lady Rohanne (a.k.a. the Red Widow) will lose her lands if she doesn't remarry by deadline.
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