Usually the father of the bride gives the bride away. However the brother of a bride can give her away if the father has pasted. A bride's escort is a person that the bride chooses to give her away.
C.) alliteration. "Farming father's" and "Fallen father" all start with the same letter.
Self reliance is reliance on one's own powers and resources rather than those of others.
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